SpaceX’s Spectacular Launch Weekend: 50 Satellites Launched, But Troubles Loom
Weekend Launches and Starlink Expansion On Sept. 25 and 27, 2025, SpaceX sent two Falcon 9 rockets aloft from Vandenberg SFB in California, each deploying a batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Sept. 25 mission (Starlink 17-11) lifted off at 9:26 p.m. local time with 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites edhat.com space.com. A first-stage booster landed on the droneship OCISLY about 8½ minutes later space.com. Two days later, on Sept. 27 at 7:20 a.m. Pacific Time, Falcon 9 carried 26 more Starlink satellites into orbit ksby.com. KSBY News reports that after stage separation the booster again returned to OCISLY for a precision