SpaceX is set to send Falcon 9 booster B1067 into space for a record-breaking 35th flight early Monday, with liftoff planned before sunrise from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Starlink 10-35 mission is scheduled for 6:13:50 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 and will carry 29 broadband internet satellites toward low Earth orbit.
The launch would extend the company’s reuse record for a booster that has already flown more than any other in its fleet. SpaceX says its Starlink network now includes more than 10,500 spacecraft, and this mission adds another batch to that constellation as the company keeps pushing boosters farther than most people once thought practical.
The timing is part of why the flight is drawing attention today. Spaceflight Now said live coverage will begin about an hour before liftoff, while the 45th Weather Squadron is calling for a 90 percent chance of favorable weather at the opening of the window before that slips to 75 percent later in the morning. Meteorologists are watching thick clouds near the Cape, which could be the difference between a clean launch and a delay.
That weather caveat lands against a bigger question about how far SpaceX can keep stretching Falcon 9 hardware. The company says its boosters have been engineered and demonstrated to support up to 40 flights, but its prospectus sets a 25-flight accounting useful life and says certain government contracts bar boosters that have flown more than five times. SpaceX also said seven Falcon boosters have now flown more than 25 times, and that only eight of its 165 Falcon 9 launches in 2025 used a booster making its first flight.
Elon Musk said Friday that the probe into the Sept. 1 mishap had not turned up a smoking gun, a reminder that the reuse campaign is moving ahead even as the company is still digging through the cause of a launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 booster and an Israeli communications satellite. If Monday’s countdown holds, B1067 will lift off north-east from Florida and add another 29 satellites to a network already so large that each new batch is less a beginning than a measure of how far the system has already gone.
