After a three-day delay, SpaceX managed the Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, completing two launches on the Space Coast in just three hours on Wednesday.
The 39-A from the first Kennedy Space Center launch was the IM-2 mission of the intuitive machine of a commercial company with NOVA-C Lander Athena heading for the moon. He was lifted at 7:17pm
Next was the Falcon 9 rocket, which missed its launch opportunity on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights with 21 Starlink satellites. It was lifted from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:34pm.
This is the debut of the first phase booster of the rocket, and I’ve only read the instructions that a landing descent back to a droneship stationed in the Atlantic.
The two launches were on the 18th and 19th from the Space Coast so far in 2025.
SpaceX will fly all but one of the missions of either the Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral this year, with Blue Origin’s new Glen being in charge of the other.
The Space Force predicted up to 156 launches from the Space Coast in 2025 at the beginning of the year. The average monthly was 13 years old. We saw 10 in January, and the release of these two brought the 9 in February.
The next launch is scheduled early on Saturday, the first day of March, in a four-hour launch window that opens at 8:57pm and will be available for lifting another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral.
Original release: February 26, 2025 11:00 PM EST
