Overview
- The Falcon 9 mission, which lifted off Monday, May 25, from Cape Canaveral, deployed 29 Starlink v2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit and completed the planned second-stage coast and second burn for on-target insertion.
- First-stage booster B1078, flying its 28th mission, returned to the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean for a successful recovery.
- SpaceX followed a standard mission timeline with first-stage separation about eight and a half minutes after launch, a short second-stage burn near T+52 minutes, and satellite deployment roughly 61 minutes after liftoff.
- The launch took place after the 45th Weather Squadron forecasted an 85 percent chance of favorable conditions and flagged cumulus clouds as the primary weather risk for the window.
- The flight is one of several high-tempo launches this week, adding to a Starlink constellation now above 10,000 spacecraft and occurring alongside other major LEO internet deployments such as ULA’s Atlas V carrying Amazon Leo satellites.