Cape Canaveral, Florida – SpaceX launched 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on the morning of September 3, 2025, expanding its growing megaconstellation of more than 8,000 spacecraft.

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). This mission came just over eight hours after a separate Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites late Monday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Designated Starlink 10-22, the mission deployed the broadband relays into low-Earth orbit about an hour after liftoff. It marked the 14th flight for Falcon 9 booster B1083, which completed main engine cutoff and stage separation successfully roughly 2.5 minutes after launch.

After completing deceleration and landing burns, B1083 touched down safely on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean about six minutes later.

Starlink 10-22 represents SpaceX’s 113th launch of 2025 and is the second of five Starlink missions scheduled for this week. According to astronomer and spacecraft tracker Jonathan McDowell, the Starlink megaconstellation now has over 8,100 satellites, providing low-latency, high-speed internet access to subscribers worldwide.

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