🚨🇺🇸 SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATS—ROCKET FOOTAGE SHOWS EPIC THUNDERSTORM FLYOVER
Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy's LC-39A Tuesday like a comet slicing through Florida's midnight sky.
The real show?
Onboard cameras captured the rocket threading over massive thunderclouds, with lightning strikes illuminating the descent in cinematic perfection.
Mother Nature provided the special effects while SpaceX handled the pyrotechnics.
28 Starlink satellites deployed flawlessly into low-Earth orbit while the seasoned first-stage booster—on its 28th flight—stuck its landing on the "Just Read the Instructions" droneship parked in the Atlantic.
This workhorse booster has a resume longer than most careers: CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, and 16 previous Starlink missions.
The thunderstorm footage hits different when you realize this booster has seen everything from crew missions to satellite deployments.
Source: @SpaceX @Starlink
🇺🇸 SPACEX HITS 59 LAUNCHES BEFORE JUNE—ELON'S ROCKET EMPIRE IS BASICALLY A LAUNCH FACTORY NOW
While everyone else plans their launches, SpaceX just casually drops another 26 Starlink satellites like it's a Tuesday routine.
Falcon 9 booster B1088-6 launched Starlink Group 15-4 from Vandenberg this morning—marking SpaceX's 59th mission of 2025.
That's more than one launch every 2.5 days since January.
Four more Starlink missions are already lined up between California and Florida.
At this rate, SpaceX will hit 250+ launches by year-end, while NASA used to celebrate 6 launches annually.
Meanwhile, Australia's celebrating their first homegrown rocket, China's playing catch-up with multiple missions, and India's launching Earth observation satellites.
Everyone's fighting for orbital real estate.
But SpaceX isn't in a race anymore—they're running their own monopoly.
The rest of the world launches.
SpaceX mass-produces.
Source: @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight
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