Overview
- A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on Monday and placed 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit.
- The first stage booster B1078, flying its 28th mission, targeted and reached a recovery on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Mission timing followed a two‑burn profile with a main‑stage cutoff near T+8 minutes 39 seconds, a coast phase, a brief second burn near T+52 minutes, and deployment about 61 minutes 26 seconds after liftoff.
- The 45th Weather Squadron had forecast an 85 percent chance of favorable conditions for the launch window and warned that the Cumulus Cloud Rule posed the primary prelaunch weather risk.
- The flight was part of SpaceX’s rapid Starlink buildout and marked the company’s 60th orbital mission of the year, underlining the high cadence of small‑satellite launches and routine booster reuse.