Posted: Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 11:13 AM ET (1513 GMT)
SpaceX launched a Spanish communications satellite on a rare expendable Falcon 9 flight. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:30 pm EDT Thursday (0130 GMT Friday), placing the SpainSat NG 2 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit. The launch was the 22nd and final flight of this Falcon 9 booster, which SpaceX expended because of the performance needed to place the 6,100-kilogram satellite into its transfer orbit. The satellite is the second of a pair of satellites that will provide secure communications for the Spanish military.

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