Overview
- A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg on Dec. 7 with 28 Starlink satellites, and the first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship after its 12th flight.
- The Starlink 6-92 mission from Kennedy Space Center was scheduled for Dec. 8 using booster B1067 on its 32nd flight to deploy 29 satellites.
- That Florida flight would mark SpaceX’s 3,000th Starlink satellite launched in 2025, according to Spaceflight Now.
- The 45th Weather Squadron forecast about a 50% chance of favorable conditions at the start of the window, with a Just Read the Instructions droneship landing planned.
- SpaceX has conducted over 100 launches in 2025, most of them for Starlink, and it is pursuing certification of Falcon boosters for up to about 40 missions each.