The Global Communications Race
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 02/23/2025
SPACEX LAUNCH SEEN FROM ARIZONA: It’s only February, but SpaceX has already launched 23 Falcon 9 rockets in 2025. The latest left Earth on Feb. 22nd from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. “It was visible all the way from Flagstaff,” reports Dave Blanchard, who photographed the rocket’s exhaust twisting in the Arizona twilight:
“The rocket’s 2nd stage delivered 22 new Starlink satellites to Earth orbit, bringing the total number of Starlinks launched so far in 2025 to 386.”
