Tuesday, July 14, 2026

SpaceX flies a flight-proven Falcon booster for the 600th time

SpaceX

SpaceX was set to notch its 600th launch using a flight-proven - previously flown and recovered - Falcon first stage early on July 14, flying the Starlink 10-45 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and adding 29 broadband satellites to its low-Earth-orbit constellation. The milestone underscores how routine booster reuse has become for the company, whose fleet-leading first stages have each now flown dozens of times. It came just days after SpaceX set a single-booster reuse record with a 36th flight.