Sunday Morning, currently No Earlier Than 7:49 AM EDT (1149 UTC), SpaceX will launch 28 satellites on the Starlink 10-14 mission.
Spaceflight Now's live video coverage here starts at 6:49 AM. Probably. It's honestly hard to know because SpaceX just moved the launch from 7:20 to 7:49 a little while ago and I just modified all the times I'd previously written to the current, latest times. Which kind of assumes they don't change again and we all know that's not absolute.
All told in 2025, following the deployment of the 28 satellites on the Starlink 10-14 mission, SpaceX will have deployed more than 1,900 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit across 77 Falcon 9 launches.
The Starlink satellites will ride on top of booster B1077 which is in the "very experienced" group. This will be its 23rd trip to space and back. The landing drone ship for the flight is Just Read The Instructions, which will be stationed off the coast of South Carolina.
SpaceX plans to launch at least 170 Falcon 9 rockets across 2025, with the majority of those supporting its Starlink constellation. Sunday’s launch will the 108th of the year. As we start the last four months of 2025, that's the last third of the year. It seems that implies 2/3 of the year has passed and a reasonable guess at how many they do in a third of the year is half of that 108, or 54 launches. Another 54 on top of the 108 gets them to 162. My WAG on that is that they're close and probably can make it, but it's not an absolute gimme.
During the prelaunch coverage of Starship Flight 10, SpaceX said in a pre-produced video that roughly two-thirds of all operational satellites in orbit are Starlinks. Cornelia Rosu, the senior director of Starlink Production, said in the video that SpaceX is producing dozens of Starlink V2 Mini satellites weekly at its facilities in Redmond, Washington.
“Generally satellite manufacturing is a very slow process. It takes people weeks or months to build a satellite,” Rosu said. “At SpaceX, we iterate very fast and we have learned how to build satellites at a 70 sats per week rate.”
You can watch that video just referenced at the Spaceflight Now article or here on X.
Fleet leader B1067 after Thursday morning's mission to put up another 28 Starlink Satellites.
During the end of the broadcast, when NSF was going over the stats, they noted that this is the 157th launch in 365 days, so it's reasonable to expect they can make 170 easily.
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