SpaceX notched its 100th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 on 18 August, lofting 24 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff occurred at 9:26 a.m. Pacific Time (1626 UTC), and the booster’s reusable first stage returned to Earth minutes later, continuing the company’s practice of rapid turnaround operations. Reaching 100 flights before the end of August puts SpaceX ahead of its previous annual record of 96 Falcon 9 launches set in 2023, translating to an average cadence of one launch roughly every 2.3 days this year. The milestone underscores the company’s growing share of global launch activity and supports the ongoing expansion of the Starlink broadband constellation, which now tops several thousand satellites in low-Earth orbit. The pace shows no sign of slowing. A Falcon 9 carrying the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane on the classified USSF-36 mission is scheduled to lift off from Florida on 21 August, while preparations continue at Starbase, Texas, for the tenth test flight of the fully reusable Starship system, currently targeting no earlier than 25 August.