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SpaceX and ULA Execute Back-to-Back Cape Canaveral Launches for Starlink and Kuiper

The morning flights highlighted intensifying competition to scale low-Earth-orbit internet networks.

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’s Falcon 9 lifted off at 4:39 a.m. EDT from SLC-40 with 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, and booster B1080 completed its 22nd flight with a landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
  • ULA’s Atlas V launched at 8:09 a.m. EDT from SLC-41 with 27 Project Kuiper satellites, bringing Amazon’s on-orbit total to 129.
  • The U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90% chance of favorable conditions, and both missions proceeded without weather delays.
  • The Starlink mission was SpaceX’s 86th Starlink launch of 2025 and contributed to the Space Coast’s 83rd launch of the year.
  • SpaceX also prepared a nighttime Falcon 9 from Vandenberg to deploy 24 additional Starlink satellites, underscoring the company’s multi-site cadence.