{"id":162101,"date":"2026-02-20T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:28:08","slug":"spacex-rocket-launches-from-florida-booster-lands-near-bahamas-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162101\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket launches from Florida, booster lands near Bahamas Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A SpaceX rocket rumbled through the clouds and lit up the night sky Feb. 19, on a launch that took it on a flight path toward a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/live-story\/tech\/science\/space\/2026\/02\/18\/what-to-know-before-this-afternoon-bahamas-falcon-9-spacex-rocket-launch-from-florida-cape-canaveral\/88716417007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:booster landing in the Caribbean;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">booster landing in the Caribbean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch occurred at 8:41 p.m. Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Falcon 9 rocket carried 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2026\/02\/19\/what-to-know-before-bahamas-spacex-rocket-launch-from-cape-canaveral\/88735784007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Starlink internet satellites;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Starlink internet satellites<\/a> to orbit on the booster&#8217;s 26th mission. No sonic booms were heard in Brevard County, as the booster landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-rocket-launch-in-cape-canaveral-florida-to-booster-landing-near-bahamas\/88693932007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:off the coast of the Bahamas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">off the coast of the Bahamas<\/a>. This marked only the second time SpaceX has landed that far south, the first being in Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When is the next Florida launch? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2026\/02\/01\/rocket-launch-schedule-in-february-from-cape-canaveral-and-nasa-kennedy-space-center-florida\/88464243007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Is there a launch today? Upcoming NASA, SpaceX, ULA launch schedule in Florida;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Is there a launch today? Upcoming NASA, SpaceX, ULA launch schedule in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The next Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida is scheduled for no earlier than 9:04 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mission is the next batch of SpaceX Starlink internet satellites, titled Starlink 6-104.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:bedwards@floridatoday.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:bedwards@floridatoday.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bedwards@floridatoday.com<\/a> or on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brookeofstars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@brookeofstars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@brookeofstars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Florida Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2026\/02\/19\/spacex-rocket-launches-from-florida-cape-canaveral-booster-lands-near-bahamas-thursday\/88716831007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SpaceX rocket launches from Florida, booster lands near Bahamas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SpaceX rocket launches from Florida, booster lands near Bahamas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX rocket rumbled through the clouds and lit up the night sky Feb. 19, on a launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6941,28,30,29,45082,6498],"class_list":{"0":"post-162101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-falcon-9-rocket","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-launch-complex-40","13":"tag-rocket-launch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}