Personal spaceflight continues its upward trajectory.
American firms launched 21 commercial space missions in June 2025, which was a brand new file for a single month, based on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The outdated file of 20 was set in November 2024.
“Operations throughout the file month embody 21 launches carried out by 4 operators: Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance,” FAA officers stated in an emailed assertion.
“These occurred in California, Florida, Texas and New Zealand, and concerned orbital, suborbital and business human spaceflight missions,” they added. (California-based Rocket Lab‘s major launch website is on New Zealand’s North Island.)
SpaceX was by far the busiest of the 4 operators, launching 15 of the month’s 21 missions. Twelve of these 15 flights have been dedicated to constructing out the corporate’s Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
June continued a really energetic 2025 for SpaceX, which has launched 81 missions to date this yr. The corporate is subsequently on tempo to interrupt its single-year file of 134 orbital liftoffs, which was set in 2024. (These numbers do not rely the suborbital check flights of SpaceX’s new Starship megarocket, which launched 4 instances in 2024 and has flown thrice to date this yr.)
SpaceX was additionally liable for certainly one of June’s two human spaceflight missions — Ax-4, which despatched 4 personal astronauts towards the Worldwide Area Station on June 25.
The month’s different crewed mission was NS-33, a suborbital vacationer flight by Blue Origin that launched and landed on June 29.