You Won’t Believe What Launched in Space This Week
SpaceX conducted two Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours (July 26 from Florida and July 27 from California), marking SpaceX’s 92nd mission of 2025, with the first booster flying 22nd time and the second booster 19th flight, and both droneship landings bringing the total to 480 recoveries. A rare global Starlink outage on July 24 was resolved within hours through software fixes, with SpaceX identifying the bug to prevent a repeat. Amazon announced a $139.5 million investment in new Florida facilities to scale up Project Kuiper launches after three prototype satellite batches this year and plans for more. China
