SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida’s Space Coast

SpaceX launched yet one more batch of its Starlink broadband satellites early this morning (Nov. 9).

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink spacecraft lifted off right this moment at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT) from storied Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The rocket’s first stage got here again to Earth as deliberate about 8.5 minutes later, touching down within the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.”

It was the twenty eighth flight for this specific booster, which carries the designation 1069. The report is 31, which was set final month by Booster 1067 on a Starlink launch.

Meanwhile, the Falcon 9’s higher stage continued hauling the 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit today, where they’re scheduled to be deployed 64 minutes after launch.

The newcomers will join more than 8,800 operational satellites within the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the most important community of spacecraft ever assembled.

Many of them have gone up this 12 months: SpaceX has now launched 143 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, and 103 of them have been Starlink flights.