Deployed 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on the Starlink 17-8 mission from Vandenberg, featuring the rare debut of a brand-new Falcon 9 first stage, which landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.8 T
- Flight
- 469th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 3 September 2025, 03:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2025-194
- Launches in 2025
- 203rd of 329
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