Tonight's launch was SpaceX's 54th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 and 56th liftoff so far this year. The other two missions involved Starship, SpaceX's next-generation super-heavy-lift rocket. The company is gearing up for another Starship test flight — the vehicle's ninth overall — in the coming weeks.

Following stage separation, the rocket's first-stage booster landed on the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the Instructions out in the Atlantic Ocean.

This mission is slated as the Space Coast's 40th orbital launch of 2025 from the Space Force installation and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center.