One other SpaceX launch, one other milestone.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station tonight (Nov. 20) at 10:39 p.m. EST (0339 GMT on Nov. 21), carrying 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink web satellites to orbit.
The rocket’s first stage got here again to Earth as deliberate about 8.5 minutes after liftoff tonight, touching down within the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX droneship “Simply Learn the Directions.” It was the twenty third flight for this explicit booster, which carries the designation 1080.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, continued hauling the Starlink craft towards low Earth orbit, the place they’re going to be deployed about 65 minutes after launch.
‘SpaceX is accountable for the overwhelming majority of this 12 months’s record-breaking rocket visitors from the Area Coast, which options two side-by-side spaceports: Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station and NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart.
Elon Musk‘s firm has now launched a complete of 149 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, greater than 90 of them from Florida. (The others have flown from Vandenberg Area Pressure Base in California.) That whole, which will increase each different day or so, is a document; the earlier excessive, set in 2024, was 132 Falcon 9 launches.
SpaceX has additionally launched 5 suborbital check flights of its large Starship Mars rocket in 2025, all of them from its Starbase website in South Texas.
