Update 2:31 a.m. EDT: SpaceX launched the Starlink 10-10 mission at 2:10 a.m. EDT (0610 UTC).

SpaceX broke its own record for the number of orbital launches conducted by a company, which stood at 96 in 2023. The Starlink 10-10 mission put SpaceX at 97 orbital flights with two and a half months left in the year.

The Falcon 9 launch also marked SpaceX's 100th overall launch of 2024, including three suborbital launches of its Starship rocket from South Texas. Launch occurred at 2:10 a.m. EDT (0610 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1080 in the SpaceX fleet, was launched for the eleventh time. It previously flew two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station (Axiom-2 and Axiom-3), two Cargo Dragon missions to the ISS (NG-21 and CRS-30) and the Euclid Space Telescope for the European Space Agency (ESA). ).

Just over eight minutes after liftoff, B1080 landed on SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship. This was the 81st booster landing for ASOG and the 353rd booster landing to date.

There are 23 Starlink V2 mini satellites on board the mission. This was the first launch of Starlink satellites since the upper stage anomaly during the Crew-9 mission on September 28. The final batch of Starlink satellites was launched during the Starlink 9-8 mission on September 25th.

During the Crew-9 mission, after the Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft separated from the upper stage, the Merlin vacuum engine fired for an additional 500 milliseconds during the deorbit burn, causing the stage to move outside its planned landing zone and the Pacific Ocean burned up.

The issue was investigated by SpaceX as part of a mishap investigation overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration and reviewed by NASA in an independent review. Since the accident, SpaceX has successfully launched both a Falcon 9 rocket on the Hera asteroid mission for ESA and a Falcon Heavy rocket on the Europa Clipper mission for NASA.