Overview
- From Vandenberg on Thursday morning, a Falcon 9 was slated to send 25 Starlink satellites on a south–southwest path, using booster B1082 on its 19th flight with a drone‑ship landing targeted on Of Course I Still Love You.
- The Vandenberg batch was expected to include the 11,000th Starlink satellite launched by SpaceX since 2019, according to launch tracking reports.
- Hours later from Cape Canaveral, SpaceX targeted a 2:22 a.m. EST liftoff for Starlink 6‑101 with 29 satellites, flying booster B1095 to Just Read the Instructions under a 95% favorable weather forecast.
- SpaceX is closing out January with its 13th Falcon 9 mission of the month, after earlier flights added 195 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit across launches from California and Florida.
- SpaceX unveiled Stargaze, stating it uses about 30,000 onboard star trackers to log roughly 30 million object transits daily and cut conjunction assessment times to minutes, citing a late‑2025 case where it flagged an unshared maneuver that tightened a miss distance to ~60 meters and prompted a timely avoidance plan.