SpaceX hit a major milestone early Saturday morning as a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, marking the company’s 150th Falcon 9 launch of 2025. Liftoff occurred at 11:53 p.m. PT/2:53 a.m. ET, carrying 29 more Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit.
“Falcon 9 completes its 150th launch of 2025,” SpaceX posted on X, later adding that “deployment of 29 Starlink satellites [was] confirmed.” The spacecraft reached orbit just over an hour after launch.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting the mission — flying for the ninth time — successfully returned to Earth with a droneship landing on A Shortfall of Gravitas, stationed in the Atlantic. The booster previously supported eight missions, including SES O3b mPOWER-E, Crew-10, Bandwagon-3, mPOWER-D, CRS-33, and multiple Starlink deployments. Check out the full launch below:
Saturday’s Starlink 6-79 mission adds another 29 satellites to SpaceX’s rapidly growing constellation, which now includes more than 9,000 active units in orbit. The company has launched over 10,400 satellites since 2019 as it continues expanding global broadband coverage. SpaceX launched a whopping 109 Starlink missions in 2025 alone, deploying a record 2,814 satellites so far this year.
The milestone comes just weeks after SpaceX set a new annual launch record with its 139th mission of the year. With this flight, the company has now completed 155 total launches in 2025, consisting of 150 Falcon 9 missions and five suborbital Starship test flights — and the year isn’t over yet.
SpaceX’s pace is only accelerating. Last week, the company flew two back-to-back Starlink missions from Florida with less than four hours between liftoffs, marking another rapid-fire doubleheader for the company.
Starlink itself has seen a year of rapid improvement. SpaceX’s network upgrades and launch cadence have allowed the satellite internet provider to boost median peak-hour speeds across its entire system by more than 50% in 2025 alone. The service has also broadened its offerings, expanding the $80 Residential Lite plan to more regions and launching its most affordable package yet in the U.S. — a $40 plan with unlimited data and speeds of up to 100 Mbps in areas with excess capacity.
With additional missions planned in the coming weeks, SpaceX is on track to push its annual launch total even higher before 2025 wraps.
