SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Monday morning, despite severe weather conditions, reports Space.com.
The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 00:25 local time EST (05:25 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral space base. Escaping the threat of strong winds and cloud cover, SpaceX’s two-stage launch vehicle reached space about 8 minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff, reports Noi.md with reference to .
The Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage launched the 29 Starlink Broadband Internet Relay Satellites (Group 6-82) after about an hour.
Meanwhile, the rocket’s first stage completed its mission, separated and used its engines to descend over the Atlantic Ocean on the autonomous drone barge ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’. The landing on the barge completed the ninth flight of the reusable propellant (B1092).
Monday’s launch from Florida followed another successful Starlink mission from California the day before. The East Coast mission was the 163rd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2025, with another scheduled for Tuesday (Dec. 16) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
