The early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all businesses a year, but also marked the 500th successful mission for the Workhorse Falcon 9 Rocket.
The rocket carried the Israeli communications satellite on the commercial GTO 1 mission and was lifted from 1:04 AM from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
The first stage booster took the 13th time, creating a landing downhill that recovered to a droneship. I just read the instructions.
It was the 502nd release of the Falcon 9 since its debut in 2010, and the company only lost its rocket in two missions. In 2015, then in July 2024, they lost their rocket.
The first stage of Falcon 9 landed simply by reading the instructions on Droneship.com/1QlyQhtbkj
– SpaceX (@spacex) July 13, 2025
SpaceX launched everything except three Space Coast Missions in 2025, with Blue Origin’s new Glenn making its debut flight in January, and the United Launch Alliance flew two Atlas V Rockets on Amazon’s Project Kuiper missions in April and June.
The ULA line up the Space Force’s new Vulcan rockets for the first national security launch, the USSF-106 mission, but the launch date has not been announced.
This week’s Blue Origin announced that the engine is ready for the next new Glenn Rocket, but at least it’s not expected to fly until it drops.
Meanwhile, SpaceX continues to be released regularly by both Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center.
The next KSC launch from SpaceX will be on the 11 crew missions to the International Space Station by July 31st. The commercial crew program flight will occupy two astronauts from NASA. One will release the crew-10 crew, with Japanese jacuzza and one astronaut, who have been appearing on the station since March.
This flight will be SpaceX’s fourth human spaceflight, including Crew-10 and a private polar orbit FRAM2 mission and a private Ashiom Space AX-4 mission.
Space Coast has seen a record 93 launches in 2024 and is at a pace that beats 100 launches in 2025.
SpaceX has flew 85 orbital missions this year, flying among its Florida and California facilities, and is on track to break records for 134 missions it flew in 2024.
