Sept. 6 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday to deliver 24 Starlink V2 mini satellites, with the company now deploying more than 2,000 such satellites to space in 2025.
The rocket lifted off at 2:05 p.m. EDT from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base and used the same first-stage Falcon 9 booster rocket that had completed 19 previous launch missions.
Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California https://t.co/t8O1pQwrw2— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 6, 2025
Prior missions by the Falcon 9 booster, number B1075, include 16 batches of Starlink satellites, a transporter mission and delivery of 10 satellites into low Earth orbit for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
The booster rocket successfully landed eight minutes and 19 seconds after launch on the drone ship named Of Course I Still Love You, which was positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
