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Falcon 9 launches 28 Starlinks on May 10, 2025
satellites. EDT (0628 GMT) on May 9, the company's second Starlink launch in a little over six hours. The most recent launch had been the preceding evening from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX wants to build the biggest fleet of working satellites in low-Earth orbit; hence, this flight helps to achieve that.
As per a SpaceX mission Earth orbit, where it was scheduled to deploy the 28 Starlink satellites 65 minutes after launch.
The launch was the 55th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, and 38 of those have been in of the Starlink effort. Starlink is SpaceX's ambitious project to offer global high-speed internet coverage to the world using thousands of interconnected satellites. More than 7,300 satellites are currently orbiting in space, and the project is growing rapidly, as new batches of satellites will continue launching.
And the speed of these launches, the frequency of them, demonstrates how much SpaceX has become the king of commercial spaceflight. Typically launching multiple times within 24-hour periods, the company points to the complexity of its launch capability and operating rhythm. The May 10 flight was more proof of concept of SpaceX's now well-established reliance on reusable Falcon 9 capability and pinpoint orbital delivery.
Some analysts note that the continued development of Starlink could have broader implications for traffic management and space debris regulation in orbit, as well as for world internet coverage. Regulators and space agencies are monitoring the expanded network's environmental and operational impacts in low Earth orbit.
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