Blastoff! SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, nails landing on droneship

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched  28 Starlink satellites  from Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on  April 24, 2025  at 9:52 p.m. ET (0152 GMT, April 25).

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00:00T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition, and liftoff.

00:15Go SpaceX, go Starlink.

00:30Vehicle is pitching downrange.

00:35Stage 1 propulsion is nominal.

00:36Falcon 9 power and telemetry are nominal.

01:06Vehicle is supersonic.

01:14Max Q.

01:33I'm back to all started.

01:49I'm back to all started.

02:03I'm back to all started.

02:19I'm back to all started.

02:23I'm back to all started.

02:43Main engine cutoff.

02:45Stage separation confirmed.

02:55I'm back to all started.

03:13Fairing separation confirmed.

03:16Last issue we will need to train.

03:2840 minutes left.

03:3030 minutes left.

03:31BF 6.

03:34Birding and ego.

03:36I'm back.

03:37101.

03:3942 minutes left.

03:43.

04:13.

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06:13.

06:15.

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06:25.

06:26.

06:27.

06:28.

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06:31.

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06:33.

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06:35.

06:36Stage 1 entry burn started.

06:37Stage 1 FTS is saved.

06:43Stage 1 entry burn shut down.

07:00Stage 2 FTS is saved.

07:05.

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07:13.

07:43Stage one, transonic.

08:10Stage two, terminal guidance.

08:13Stage one, landing, burn.

08:32Stage one, landing, leg, deploy.

08:43Stage one, landing, confirmed.

09:02Infect shutdown.

09:03Infect shutdown.

09:10Nominal orbit insertion.

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