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Late Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying additional Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The rocket, measuring 230 feet tall, lifted off from Launch Complex 40 and followed a southeasterly trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean, skirting between the Florida coast and the Bahamas. This mission, designated as Starlink 6-10, marked the 42nd launch of the year from the Space Coast. The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage, which had previously flown 13 missions, safely landed on the drone ship named “Shortfall of Gravitas” around eight minutes after liftoff.

The payload for this mission consisted of 22 more Starlink satellites. SpaceX has been steadily deploying these satellites to expand its global constellation for providing internet service. Since 2019, the company has already launched over 5,000 of these satellites into orbit.

Starlink internet service is available for various applications and offers connectivity to remote and hard-to-reach areas worldwide. The service starts at 0 for residential customers, with an additional 9 hardware fee. It can be used for in-flight services on airplanes and is useful in connecting remote locations.

Looking ahead, the next Falcon 9 launch from Florida is scheduled to send NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. This mission, planned for Friday, August 25, will transport NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov to the space station for a six-month science mission. Although SpaceX may schedule another Falcon 9 Starlink mission from the Cape, no specific launch dates have been announced yet.

For more information on upcoming launches and missions, visit floridatoday.com/launchschedule.

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