150th Falcon 9 Mission Completed: Starlink Satellite Count Surpasses 9,000
SpaceX has reached a significant milestone by completing its 150th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, launching 28 satellites into orbit from California. The company’s number of active Starlink satellites has now surpassed 9,000.
SpaceX carried out its 150th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 on Saturday night, launching 28 satellites into orbit from California and achieving a major milestone.
Sending a Rocket Every 2.4 Days
This milestone represents a dramatic acceleration in pace compared to the 132 Falcon 9 launches SpaceX performed in 2024. With this flight, the company has completed a total of 155 launches in 2025: 150 Falcon 9 missions and five suborbital Starship test flights. This averages out to one launch every 2.4 days throughout the year.
The Falcon 9 first-stage booster, B1080, completed its ninth mission and successfully landed on the drone ship named “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean. With the latest mission, the total number of Falcon 9 flights conducted since 2010 has risen to 568.
SpaceX is targeting a launch window at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday, November 23rd, for its next Starlink mission. The rocket will follow a southeastern trajectory from Space Launch Complex 4E and carry 28 Starlink satellites to Low Earth Orbit.
Starlink Satellite Count Surpasses 9,000
With the 29 satellites added on Saturday (note: the original text mentioned 28 in the first paragraph, 29 here, I kept the original number), the number of active Starlink satellites has exceeded 9,000 out of the more than 10,400 satellites launched since 2019. According to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, SpaceX has conducted 109 Starlink missions in 2025 alone, deploying a total of 2,814 satellites into orbit this year.
The company announced earlier this month that it has surpassed 8 million active customers worldwide. Starlink currently offers high-speed internet service in more than 150 countries and territories.
🛰️ Starlink: A Quick Overview
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX providing high-speed, low-latency broadband internet access to locations where conventional internet access is unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.
Key facts:
- Operator: SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk).
- Technology: Thousands of small satellites operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This low orbit is key to achieving lower latency (quicker response time) compared to traditional geostationary satellites.
- Goal: To create a global network of satellites to offer reliable internet access across the world.
- Scale: As of 2025, the number of active Starlink satellites has surpassed 9,000, with the company serving over 8 million active customers globally in more than 150 countries and territories.
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