SpaceX launches Starlink 15-15 mission following a trio of scrubsOctober 20, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith
(...) SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1063. This was its 36th flight and will become the second booster to reach three dozen flights. The rocket flew on a southeasterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Roughly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas. This was the 229th landing on this vessel and the 673rd Falcon booster landing to date.
Starlink growthDuring a third quarter earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the original launch time on Oct. 20, SpaceX Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President Gwynne Shotwell noted that the company added 1.6 million customers in that three-month period. She said the service was active across 174 markets globally.
“This number does not include additional hundreds of thousands of enterprise subscribers and aviation customers,” Shotwell said during the earnings call. “We remain incredibly inspired by the impact of Starlink on communities around the world, including providing service to hundreds of thousands of students and teachers in schools globally, as well as for emergency response during natural disasters.”
In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SpaceX noted that it closed the third quarter with more than 11,100 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, which includes the 26 Starlink Version 3 satellites launched during Starship Flight 14. (...)
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