🚀 SpaceX breaks multiple records

• SpaceX conducted its 135th Falcon 9 launch during 2025, which surpasses the company's total number for all of 2024.
• The number 135 equals the total number of launches that NASA's space shuttles completed during the program's 30-year lifetime.
• The company also set a new record for the fastest turnaround between launches from the same pad in California with two days and 10 hours.

More launches than any previous year

SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Saturday morning that became the company's 135th Falcon 9 launch of the year. This broke the company's record for the number of orbital launches achieved during all of 2024.

The mission came nearly a week after SpaceX launched its 10,000th Starlink satellite. Spaceflight Now reports on the records.

As many launches as the space shuttle in 30 years

The number 135 equals the number of launches that NASA's space shuttles completed during the entire program's 30-year lifetime. SpaceX will thus launch more Falcon 9 rockets during 2025 than the space shuttles did in three decades.

Fastest turnaround from Vandenberg

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday. The Starlink 11-21 launch occurred two days, 10 hours, 22 minutes and 59 seconds after the previous launch from the same pad. The previous record from the same week was two days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 20 seconds.

The rocket left Space Launch Complex 4 East at 5:43 p.m. local time. The launch placed 28 V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.

The rocket landed after seventeen previous flights

The Falcon 9 rocket used has the designation B1082. It has flown 17 times previously, including missions USSF-62, NROL-145, OneWeb Launch 20 and 13 Starlink missions.

Just over eight and a half minutes after launch, the rocket landed on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You". This was the 161st landing on that vessel and the 525th rocket landing in total for SpaceX.

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