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 now at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT) from storied Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida.
It was the twenty eighth flight for this explicit booster, which carries the designation 1069. The report is 31, which was set final month by Booster 1067 on a Starlink launch.
In the meantime, 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.
Previous Booster 1069 launches
The newcomers will join more than 8,800 operational satellites within the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the biggest community of spacecraft ever assembled.
Lots of them have gone up this yr: SpaceX has now launched 143 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, and 103 of them have been Starlink flights.
