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SpaceX said a Falcon 9 launch from California that delivered 27 Starlink satellites also completed the company’s 100th Falcon launch of 2026.
“Falcon 9 lifts off from California and delivers 27 Starlink satellites to orbit, completing our 100th Falcon launch of the year,” SpaceX posted on X after the flight, following earlier posts that asked followers to watch the liftoff and then confirmed deployment.
That California mission sits right next to another busy stretch for the Falcon fleet. SpaceX had just lofted 29 Starlink satellites from Florida and confirmed deployment there as well, keeping the same multi-day cadence that has defined Falcon operations this year.
Hitting 100 Falcon flights in a single year underlines how much of SpaceX’s launch business still runs through Falcon 9 even as the company talks about shifting scarce engineering and production toward Starship once that vehicle can fly reliably several times per week.
Starship is still in the test-flight phase of that handoff. The ship assigned to Flight 14 recently completed a full-duration, 60-second static fire with all six Raptors, while Falcon keeps expanding Starlink and carrying the near-term launch load.
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