On the night of April 6, 2025, SpaceX carried out another successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with 28 Starlink satellites.
The launch took place from the U.S. Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:07 p.m. Eastern Time (06:07 April 6, Kyiv time). Eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage of the rocket successfully returned to Earth, landing on a SpaceX unmanned craft called “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean. The upper stage of the rocket successfully placed the satellites into low Earth orbit about an hour after launch.
According to Space, this launch was the 39th Falcon 9 mission in 2025, with two-thirds of those flights dedicated to expanding the Starlink mega-constellation. To date, SpaceX operates more than 7,100 Starlink satellites, making the network the largest in the world.