SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Completes Record 35th Flight After Five Years of Service

On Monday, June 8, 2026, SpaceX's Falcon 9 first-stage booster B1067 lifted off at 6:13 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The booster successfully landed on the drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' in the Atlantic Ocean, completing its record-setting 35th mission and retaining its status as SpaceX's most-flown booster. The launch was SpaceX's 66th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the company's 660th completed mission overall, bringing the active Starlink megaconstellation to more than 10,580 satellites. B1067 first flew in 2021 on a Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station and has since flown astronaut missions and numerous commercial payloads before transitioning almost exclusively to Starlink launches. SpaceX had previously set a qualification target of 40 missions per booster, but given the continued safe performance of experienced boosters well beyond earlier thresholds, the company may push that limit further. The achievement draws comparisons to NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery, which flew 39 times over nearly four decades — a record the Falcon 9 program could surpass within its next few flights. A separate Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 11 carried 24 Starlink satellites, with that mission's booster also having logged more than 30 prior flights.