The Weekly Rocket Report #65
02/16/2026-02/22/2026
Ricky Whitmore
Space Writer
Hello and welcome back to this special edition of, The Weekly Starlink Report!!! Four launches to discuss this week, all Falcon 9, all Starlink launches. Let’s make this a brief one shall we?
Starlink Group 6-103 launched from the Cape early Monday morning carrying 29 satellites to orbit. It’s booster landed on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas”. Starlink Group 10-36 lifted off from the Cape Thursday evening, bringing 29 satellites to orbit. Its booster landed on the drone ship “Just Read The Instructions”. Starlink Group 17-25 blasted off from Vandenberg Saturday morning, lifting 25 satellites to orbit. Its booster landed back on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You”. Finally Starlink Group 6-104 flew from the Cape Saturday night carrying 28 satellites to LEO. The booster touched down on the drone ship “A Shortfall Of Gravitas”.
There we go, you get all that? I know I’ve said this before, but who ever thought that a week with 4 rocket launches would be considered “slow” or “boring”. Looking at next week we have of course, more Starlink! Also suborbital Electron, and another flight from Firefly’s Alpha. Hopefully Alpha can produce a solid, without incident launch. Whatever happens I will of course be back to talk about it all next week, on The Weekly Rocket Report!
Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 17-25. Photo Credit: SpaceX.
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Sic Itur Ad Astra
(Thus They Journey to the Stars)