SpaceX is targeting Oct. 31 from Vandenberg SLC‑4E for the Starlink Group 11‑23 mission, carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini smallsats to low Earth orbit. The flight is the company's 100th Starlink launch of 2025 and continues rapid constellation deployment from the California West Coast.
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The mission will place 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites in LEO and marks SpaceX's 100th Starlink launch of 2025, underscoring the company's unusually high annual cadence and operational tempo; this follows its recent milestone where SpaceX has now exceeded the total number of flights conducted by NASA's Space Shuttle program.
The flight continues intense West Coast activity and constellation buildout from Vandenberg, reinforcing site utilization that helped SpaceX set a record with 52 Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg this year.
This launch is part of broader capacity expansion for Starlink as SpaceX both increases on-orbit assets and pursues spectrum and fleet growth, complementing its filings to add more satellites and spectrum for expanded mobile services (50 MHz and up to 15,000 additional satellites filing).
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