Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 31st flight
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- Oct 18, 2025
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File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is set to break another reuse record on Sunday when it launches a Falcon 9 booster for a record-breaking 31st time.
The company’s most flown rocket will be used to launch the Starlink 10-17 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 UTC).
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists said there were no weather phenomena that they anticipate interfering with the flight.
B1067 is the tail number of the booster setting a new benchmark for SpaceX on this mission. It most recently flew on Aug. 28 on the Starlink 10-11 mission.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX aims to land B1067 on its drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This will be the 129th booster landing on this vessel and the 520th landing for SpaceX to date.
This is the 30th flight for the Falcon 9 booster supporting today’s @Starlink mission, now launching the most missions of the Falcon fleet pic.twitter.com/2lWpG8N4oY
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