{"id":234898,"date":"2025-10-18T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234898\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:10:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-record-breaking-31st-flight-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234898\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 31st flight \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n

SpaceX is set to break another reuse record on Sunday when it launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record-breaking 31st time.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s most flown rocket will be used to launch the Starlink 10-17 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 UTC).<\/p>\n

Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n

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The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists said there were no weather phenomena that they anticipate interfering with the flight.<\/p>\n

B1067 is the tail number of the booster setting a new benchmark for SpaceX on this mission. It most recently flew on Aug. 28 on the Starlink 10-11 mission.<\/p>\n

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX aims to land B1067 on its drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 This will be the 129th booster landing on this vessel and the 520th landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n

This is the 30th flight for the Falcon 9 booster supporting today\u2019s @Starlink<\/a> mission, now launching the most missions of the Falcon fleet pic.twitter.com\/2lWpG8N4oY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

SpaceX is working to certify its Falcon boosters for up to 40 launches and landings. The majority of these flagship moment launches feature its own Starlink satellites as the payload.<\/p>\n

To illustrate that, the last seven flights of B1067 have all been for the Starlink satellite constellation. The Starlink 10-17 mission will add another 28 such satellites to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

The last launch that flew from SLC-40, Starlink 10-52, marked a pad turnaround record, according to Kiko Dontchev, SpaceX\u2019s vice president of launch at SpaceX. He said marked a couple of milestones:<\/p>\n

Fastest launch-to-launch from the same American launch pad \u2013 55h 29m 9s
\nFastest transporter erector roll into hangar for booster integration to launch \u2013 12h 5m 20s<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m confident the @SpaceX<\/a> Falcon team will pull off a sub 48 hour launch to launch turn from Pad 40 this year,\u201d Dontchev wrote on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cWe still have some work to do best the world record the Soviets in 1962 with Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 from the same pad in 24 hours (two different ground launch systems so not totally apples to apples, but nonetheless the record!)\u201d<\/p>\n

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