SpaceX launched a stack of 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this morning, Feb. 21, adding to the company’s growing space-based internet fleet.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink batch lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday, at 10:19 p.m. EST (1519 GMT), against the sunny, blue sky of Florida’s Space Coast.
About eight minutes into flight, following stage separation and deceleration burns, the Falcon 9 booster returned to Earth, downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. The booster, B1076, touched down on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.
The successful landing wraps up the 21st flight for B1076, according to a SpaceX, and its twelfth Starlink mission.
Falcon 9’s upper stage continued its flight, carrying the 23 satellites into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Starlink constellation currently totals around 7,000 satellites spanning across the globe to provide low-latency, high-speed internet to SpaceX’s customers.
This launch was SpaceX’s 23rd of 2025, including on Starship launch from the company’s Starbase, Texas, launch site. Today’s mission also marks the 16th Starlink launch for SpaceX so far this year.
At least four more Starlink launches are scheduled to launch before the end of February, as well as Starship’s eighth test flight, currently expected no earlier than Feb. 26.
Article by:Source: jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner)
