{"id":275668,"date":"2025-11-11T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:07:09","slug":"spacex-starlink-launch-breaks-record-for-florida-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275668\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starlink launch breaks record for Florida spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov. 10 (UPI) — The SpaceX launch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station broke an annual launch record for Florida’s spaceport.<\/p>\n

Monday’s liftoff was the 94th launch<\/a> of an orbital class rocket in the state, breaking the previous record set at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

“Engines full power and lift off. Go SpaceX. Go Starlink,” mission control said Monday as the rocket lifted off<\/a> at 10:21 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

The commercial launch, which added 29 Starlink Internet satellites to the orbital constellation, had been scheduled for earlier in the day, but was delayed until after 10 p.m., due to a shortage of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Florida’s spaceport — which covers NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — has seen a significant increase in the number of launches over the last five years, especially with the frequency of flights by SpaceX. The only other rockets to launch<\/a> from Florida this year were Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket and three ULA Atlas V rockets.<\/p>\n

For Monday’s record-breaking launch, SpaceX used a newer booster. It was the third flight for the first-stage booster B1096, which also launched KF-01 for Amazon’s Project Kuiper and NASA’s IMAP rideshare mission earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The first-stage booster conducted an autonomous landing just over eight minutes after liftoff on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 10 (UPI) — The SpaceX launch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday night from Cape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,21146,6388,126127,66,12712,12714,21149,9126],"class_list":["post-275668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-florida","tag-launch-complex-40","tag-science","tag-space-force","tag-spacex-falcon-9","tag-spacex-launch","tag-starlink-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}