Overview
- Booster B1067 completed its 36th flight on July 9, launching 29 Starlink satellites and landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about eight minutes after liftoff.
- The mission deployed its payload to low Earth orbit with satellite separation occurring roughly 63.5 minutes after launch.
- Tracker Jonathan McDowell reports the Starlink constellation now exceeds 10,700 active satellites, a tally that grows with each batch of launches.
- Thursday’s flight was part of a high 2026 cadence for Falcon 9s that reached about 80 missions by early July and was followed by a planned Vandenberg launch of 24 Starlink satellites on July 10.
- SpaceX’s aim to reuse boosters 40 times or more underpins this tempo by cutting per‑launch cost, which helps scale Starlink service and also makes launches more visible to coastal and inland observers.