Following Wednesday’s successful SpaceX launch of 21 Starlink satellites, tech billionaire Elon Musk posted a short clip of the satellite deployment on his social media platform X.
The short clip shows the deployment of a Starlink satellite from what looks like a mounted camera.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2025
On Wednesday (Thursday morning in India), the Falcon 9 carried 21 Starlink satellites, with 13 among them possessing Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Last week, on February 18, 23 Starlink satellites were also carried by a Falcon 9 to low-Earth orbit.
Falcon 9 landing confirmed, marking the 100th time a first stage booster has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/wMU2XDct5r
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 27, 2025
SpaceX launches crossed 100 for the first time last year, clocking in an impressive 133 missions. As of 2025 so far, SpaceX has completed 24 launches.
Following the launch, SpaceX confirmed the landing of Falcon 9. This marked the 100th time the first-stage booster landed “on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship”, according to the space firm.
On Thursday night, SpaceX has scheduled the second launch for Intuitive Machines to the moon. For Intuitive Machines, a company pursuing the lunar mission, SpaceX teams designed a new fueling system and procedures to load their landers “with liquid methane and oxygen while encapsulated in Falcon 9’s fairing and vertical on the pad for launch,” it said.
