Watch Live: SpaceX launches Starlink 10-25 mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral [1:25:20] [early morning 7/2/2025, replay]

YouTube ^ | July 2, 2025 | Spaceflight Now

[SunkenCiv]

Watch Live: SpaceX launches Starlink 10-25 mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral | 1:25:20 
Spaceflight Now | 369K subscribers | 13,765 views | Streamed live 7 hours ago [7/2/2025]

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: falcon9; florida; spacex; starlink

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with more than two dozen satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 2:28 a.m. EDT (0628 UTC) on Wednesday, July 2, The first-stage booster for this mission will land on SpaceX's drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas', stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, a more than eight minutes after leaving the launch pad.

The mission, designated Starlink 10-25, will take a north-easterly trajectory on departure from Florida's Space Coast.

Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson Smith, starting approximately an hour prior to the planned liftoff. [/snip]

[SunkenCiv]

500th Falcon 9, 29th flight for this booster, rest of stats are found about 50 minutes into video, and about 68 minutes.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, SFN's usual stats are actually about 1:11:10. At the rate of launches, they'll beat last year's numbers by about 30-31 launches, and at this rate of increase should reach 1000 (their second list of 500 launches) by or before this time in 2028.

[SmokingJoe]

Wait till they start launching on Starship.
Then satellites launched will skyrocket.

[NorthMountain]

Starship is really the only way they’ll get to the numbers of operational Starlink satellites they want.

[SmokingJoe]

42,000 isn’t it?

[NorthMountain]

Something like that ... at 23 or so birds per launch, and a relatively short lifespan, the math just isn’t there. Even so, they have a useful and profit-making system. It just needs a bigger launch vehicle to achieve its full potential.

[SunkenCiv]

Apparently the Starship that blew up the other day had a problem with its composite liquid nitrogen tank, and that all of them are suspect, as the people hired to handle them couldn’t shovel manure across a barnyard.

Meanwhile, the next static fire is said to be coming relatively soon:

How’s This Even Possible? SpaceX Starship 37 About To Static Fire Soon?
(human)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L__-dV1iEYA

SpaceX Found the Perfect Solution: ULA’s Complex 37 Becomes Starship Base!
(AI narration, from the sound of it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQDCYxUGmQ

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=starship+37

[SunkenCiv]

Supposedly SpaceX/Starlink would go bankrupt unless the Starship got operational by December — in 2023, or 2024, maybe even 2022. Starlink version 2 is a bigger but much more capable sat; the one currently going up 23 to 27 at a time aboard the F9 is a more advanced and smaller version of version 2, which is great, because it’s clear that Starship is the most difficult thing SpaceX has attempted, by far.