SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-6 mission on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Image: SpaceX.
Update 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship.

SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites from California during a Falcon 9 flight Friday morning.

Liftoff of the Starlink 11-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) happened at 6:07 a.m. PST (9:07 a.m. EST, 1407 UTC).



SpaceX used Falcon 9 booster 1063 on this mission, which launched for a 23rd time. It previously supported three missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA’s DART mission and 14 previous Starlink flights.

A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ marking the 118th booster landing on OCISLY and the 401st booster landing to date.