SpaceX’s fleet-leading booster makes 31st launch from Space Coast
SpaceX plowed ahead with a record 31st launch of one of its Falcon 9 boosters with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Sunday.
Watch Falcon 9 launch 28 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/EKWpwXAPP8
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 19, 2025
A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-17 mission carrying 28 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:39 p.m.
The first-stage booster made its fleet-leading 31st flight with a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic.
Falcon 9’s fleet leader booster completes its 31st launch and landing pic.twitter.com/KVtZKi79nu
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 19, 2025
This was the 86th orbital launch from the Space Coast in 2025 with all but five coming from SpaceX.
The company touts reuse to bring down cost and last week landed a Falcon 9 booster for the 500th time. The first booster recovery came in 2015.
It has several more boosters approaching 30 launches, and has intentions to fly them as many as 40 times.
Falcon 9’s second stages are still one-time use only, but the company’s future looks to shift to a fully reusable Starship and Super Heavy rocket with both the first stage and upper stage able to make recovery landings back at the launch site.