SpaceX launched its 100th Starlink mission of the year on Halloween last Friday (Oct. 31st). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:41 p.m. local time (20:41 GMT) las Friday.
Starlink, SpaceX’s internet-beaming network, is by far the largest satellite constellation ever assembled. This latest mission added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into the low Earth orbit (LEO) megaconstellation. The company has lofted more than 10,000 Starlink spacecraft to date, and nearly 8,800 of them are active today.
The company used its oldest Falcon 9 booster that’s still in service to launch the Starlink 11-23 mission. B1063 first launched on November 21st 2020, on the Sentinel-6A mission and has flown a total of 28 times prior to Friday’s launch. It was the 29th flight for this particular booster, which is close to the Falcon 9 reuse record, currently standing at 31 flights.
The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch, touching down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” This was the 162nd landing on this vessel and the 527th booster landing to date.
SpaceX has flown 138 Falcon 9 missions so far in 2025 and 99 have been Starlink efforts. It currently has 2,500 satellites in LEO. The SpaceX public launch schedule shows it plans to launch at least eight Starlink missions before Thanksgiving, which will add another 228 broadband satellites to the constellation.
You can watch the launch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73w93xVKOpI
