SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida

Nov. 22 (UPI) — SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites early Saturday, the record 101st flight this year from Florida’s Space Coast.

The Falcon 9 carrying 29 satellites into low-Earth orbit lifted off at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Pad 40 at 2:53 a.m. EST. behind the 1:59 a.m. start of the launch window.

Traveling in a southeast direction, the first-stage booster landed on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean. It was its ninth flight, including three previous Starlink missions and NASA Crew-10.

The drone returned a Falcon 9 booster to Port Canaveral on Thursday and went back to support the latest mission.

Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/V7RwQ4RoSY— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 22, 2025

There have been 67 Starlink missions this year from Florida, carrying 1,724 satellites. In all there have been 150 Falcon 9 launches this year, including from California.

From Florida’s Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center there were 93, after 74 missions in 2023. Aside from SpaceX, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance also launch missions from Florida’s space coast.

There have been more than 9,000 Starlink satellites launched since 2019.

The next SpaceX Starlink mission is scheduled for midnight Sunday from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Pad 4E in California. That mission will send 29 satellites into orbit.

From Florida, the next SpaceX Starlink flight is scheduled for Nov. 30 from Pad 40.