SpaceX will break one of its launch records today (Oct. 22), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> today at 10:16 a.m. EDT (1416 GMT; 7:16 a.m. local California time). It will be the 133rd Falcon 9 flight of 2025, breaking the mark set by the rocket last year.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SpaceX will stream the launch live via its website<\/a> and X account, beginning about five minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Today’s launch will be the 138th overall of 2025 for SpaceX<\/a>, tying the record the company set in 2024.<\/p>\n Last year, SpaceX launched 132 Falcon 9 flights, two missions of the more powerful Falcon Heavy<\/a> and four suborbital trials of its Starship<\/a> megarocket. The Falcon Heavy has not flown yet in 2025; SpaceX’s other five missions this year have been Starship test flights.<\/p>\n If all goes according to plan today, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come back to Earth<\/a> about 8.5 minutes after liftoff, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.”<\/p>\n It will be the 21st launch and touchdown for this particular booster, which is designated 1075. The rocket’s upper stage, meanwhile, will continue carrying the Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO), deploying them there an hour after launch.<\/p>\n Today’s launch will be the latest in a series of milestones that SpaceX has notched recently. For example, the company launched two Falcon 9 missions on Sunday (Oct. 19); one sent the 10,000th Starlink satellite<\/a> to LEO, and the other was the record-breaking 31st flight<\/a> for that particular Falcon 9’s first stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX will break one of its launch records today (Oct. 22), and you can watch the action live.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}