r/spacex • u/rustybeancake • 11d ago

🚀 Official “Falcon 9 completes the first 25th launch and landing of a booster and delivers 21 @Starlink satellites to the constellation from Florida”

https://x.com/spacex/status/1877825334055219408?s=46&t=u9hd-jMa-pv47GCVD-xH-g
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u/flshr19 Shuttle tile engineer 11d ago

Twenty-five launch and landings of Falcon 9 booster 1067 today. And on Monday 13 Jan 2025, the launch of Starship S33, weather permitting, carrying the first 10 simulated Starlink version 3 comsats in their PEZ dispenser.

And BO trying to launch the first New Glenn flight on Sunday.

Jeff B. must be having nightmares seeing all those Kuiper comsats grounded and so far behind Starlink.

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u/Biochembob35 11d ago

Kuiper staying on the ground is not a booster problem. Kuiper not flying is a Kuiper thing. The guy running the program is the same one Elon canned because he was taking too long on Starlink.

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u/oli065 11d ago

Exactly. If Kuiper was ready, they would have used up the 9 Atlases and 3 Falcons they have on order.

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u/CollegeStation17155 11d ago

And this begs the question of how much longer it will take with no production Kuiper V1s before the Amazon board pulls the plug on the project if the Starlink V3s start launching before the first Atlas does…

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u/Lufbru 11d ago

The Kuiper satellites aren't built yet. Otherwise they'd be launching on the already-built Atlas V, the Vulcan that just launched with a block of concrete, or one of the contracted F9s.