SpaceX prolonged its single-year launch file on Monday evening (Nov. 10), sending yet one more batch of its Starlink web satellites up from Florida’s Space Coast.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off off Monday at 10:21 p.m. EST (0321 GMT on Nov. 11) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 29 Starlink spacecraft towards low Earth orbit (LEO).
It was the third flight for this explicit booster, which is designated 1096. On its earlier missions, the primary stage launched NASA’s IMAP space-weather mission and a batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellites.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, continued carrying the 29 Starlink satellites to LEO, the place they have been deployed as deliberate about 65 minutes after launch.
Monday’s launch was the 144th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, and the 104th of the yr dedicated to constructing out the Starlink megaconstellation. SpaceX has additionally launched 5 suborbital check flights of its Starship megarocket so far this year, bringing its total number of liftoffs to 149.
Those are both records. The previous highs were 132 Falcon 9 launches and 138 total liftoffs, both set in 2024.