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SpaceX’s Fleet-Leading Falcon 9 Completes 33rd Flight With 28 Starlinks, Lands on Droneship

The veteran booster extends SpaceX’s reusability push toward certifying Falcon 9 stages for up to 40 flights.

Overview

  • The Starlink 6-104 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:47 p.m. EST.
  • First stage B1067, which debuted in 2021, landed successfully on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.
  • The flight delivered 28 Starlink broadband satellites to low-Earth orbit on a southeasterly trajectory.
  • B1067’s manifest includes NASA Crew-3 and Crew-4, two ISS cargo resupply missions, Galileo L13, and 20 prior Starlink batches.
  • The late-Saturday launch was the 12th orbital mission from Florida’s Space Coast in 2026, according to local counts.