SpaceX Starlink 310 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 8 October 2025
Oct 8, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 28 Starlink satellites (Starlink-310 / Starlink 11-17) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on 8 October 2025, at 03:54 UTC (7 October, at 20:54 PDT). Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1071) previously supported 28 missions: NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, Transporter-13 and 17 Starlink missions.