SpaceX launched its Starlink 10-45 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday at 5:10 a.m. EDT, marking the 600th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster. The flight-proven first stage, tail number B1080, completed its 28th flight while deploying 29 broadband satellites to the company's constellation, which now exceeds 10,800 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. The booster landed on the droneship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff.
B1080 has previously flown missions for Axiom Space crew flights, the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory, and Northrop Grumman. The landing marked the 161st recovery on that droneship and the 638th total booster landing for SpaceX. Weather forecasters expected 90 percent favorable conditions at the window's opening, rising to 95 percent later, with only minor concern about lingering clouds triggering lightning.
- Vehicle: Falcon 9 Block 5
- Payload: Starlink 10-45, 29 satellites
- Site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station SLC-40
- Orbit: low Earth orbit
- Window: 2026-07-13T09:10:00Z
- Customer: SpaceX
- Outcome: success