Trump arrives in South Korea, says Kim Jong Un meeting won't happen The drone ship was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean when the Falcon 9 booster rocket landed on its deck. The rocket's upper stage continued the voyage into low Earth orbit, where it deployed the 29 Starlink satellites. A recording is available of the live-streamed broadcast of the Starlink 10-37 mission that transported the company's Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into space about an hour into the SpaceX mission. The launch followed Sunday's liftoff by SpaceX that sent 28 Starlink devices into low orbit above Earth Wednesday afternoon's mission was the 138th launch by SpaceX in 2025, which extends its record of launches in a calendar year after surpassing its prior record of 134 launches in 2024. Among this year's launches, 99 so far have been dedicated to deploying Starlink satellites. SpaceX has deployed more than 8,700 Starlink satellites to create its "megaconstellation" to provide Internet service anywhere in the world. Topics