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SpaceX and ULA Deliver Back-to-Back Cape Canaveral Launches for Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper

The twin successes highlight a surging Space Coast cadence that is fueling the low-Earth-orbit broadband race.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (Courtesy/SpaceX)
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Overview

  • SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from SLC-40 at 4:39 a.m. EDT carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, with veteran booster B1080 flying its 22nd mission and landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
  • ULA’s Atlas V lifted off from SLC-41 at 8:09 a.m. EDT on mission KA-03/AV-108, deploying 27 Project Kuiper satellites and raising Amazon’s on-orbit Kuiper total to 129.
  • The Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90% chance of favorable conditions for both morning launches.
  • Starlink now counts more than 8,400 functioning satellites, while Amazon is stepping up Kuiper deployments toward a planned multi-thousand-satellite network.
  • SpaceX scheduled another Starlink mission from Vandenberg later the same day, underscoring its sustained high launch tempo.