SpaceX targets 160th Falcon 9 flight of 2025 from Vandenberg to place 27 Starlink satellites

SpaceX plans a pre-dawn Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday to deploy 27 Starlink broadband satellites on the Starlink 15-11 mission. It will mark the Falcon 9's 160th flight so far in 2025 as Starlink continues rapid constellation growth.

Discovered 2025-12-09T17:06:15.617710-08:00 | 2025-12-09T17:06:15.617710-08:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The Falcon 9's 160th flight of 2025 underscores SpaceX's sustained launch tempo and operational scale that helped the Space Coast record 93 orbital launches in 2024: https://hype.aero/?story=32b53609-ffcf-4b2b-aa04-9fe6a6685d3d
  • Adding 27 Starlink satellites incrementally increases LEO broadband capacity, a metric investors and rivals watch as incumbents respond — see Viasat's $2B capacity spend to defend in‑flight Wi‑Fi: https://hype.aero/?story=07415456-7b2b-4e20-a563-bd68d2d3aa59
  • Continued constellation growth directly supports commercial use cases now moving toward adoption, including airlines and service providers evaluating Starlink for in‑flight connectivity: https://hype.aero/?story=064ec5fb-2f79-42b4-9c9f-9fdc42cd72dc

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