Starship Soars, Starlink Swells & SpaceX Dominates: 10 Days of Spectacular SpaceX News (Oct 1–10, 2025)
spaceflightnow.comSpaceX began October with Falcon 9 rockets flying at an unprecedented pace, underscoring the company’s capability to maintain a rapid cadence. On Oct. 3, a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB completed SpaceX’s 125th launch of 2025, lofting 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbitspaceflightnow.comspace.com. The booster landed on the Pacific droneship Of Course I Still Love You minutes later, marking SpaceX’s 514th successful booster recovery to datespaceflightnow.comspaceflightnow.com. This mission was notable not just for its payload, but for a quirky bit of launch trivia: it was the third Falcon 9 in a row launched from the West Coast – the first time SpaceX has ever flown three consecutive missions out of Vandenberg without an interleaved Florida launchspaceflightnow.com.
