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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the night of December 13–14, 2025, expanding the global satellite internet constellation. After deployment, the rocket’s reusable first stage landed on a droneship in the Pacific. The mission contributes to a growing network that provides high-speed broadband to underconnected regions worldwide.

On December 9, 2025, SpaceX launched 29 new Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. The mission expands the Starlink constellation and the rocket’s first stage landed successfully, continuing SpaceX’s track-record of reusable launches. The added satellites will help strengthen global satellite-internet coverage—especially benefiting rural, remote, or underserved regions—while demonstrating that high-frequency, cost-efficient launches are becoming the new normal in space infrastructure.

Targeting Tuesday, December 9 for a Falcon 9 launch of the @USSF_SSC and @NRO_gov ’s NROL-77 mission from pad 40 in Florida → http://spacex.com/launches/nrol77

Falcon 9 launches 28 @Starlink satellites from California

Validation testing on a Raptor 3 performing a Starship V3 ascent burn. Multiple versions of this test will cover the different conditions seen by Starship’s three inner engines during its initial climb to space