{"id":271033,"date":"2025-11-19T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271033\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:07:09","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-streaks-into-floridas-night-sky-carrying-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271033\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks into Florida’s night sky carrying Starlink satellites to orbit (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Tuesday (Nov. 18).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 29 Starlink<\/a> spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> Tuesday at 7:12 p.m. EST (0012 GMT on Nov. 19).<\/p>\n

About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket’s first stage touched down in the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” It was the 12th launch and landing for the booster, which carries the designation 1085.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Nov. 18, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The rocket’s upper stage deployed the 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit<\/a> as planned about 65 minutes after launch, SpaceX announced via X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once they’re up and running, the newcomers will push the number of operational Starlink craft above 9,000. That count currently stands at 8,979, according to<\/a> astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9’s first stage on the drone ship after landing on Nov. 18, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

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So far in 2025, SpaceX has launched 148 Falcon 9 missions, 107 of which have been devoted to building out the Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

The company has also launched five suborbital test flights of its giant Starship<\/a> rocket this year. Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.<\/p>\n

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