SpaceX Launches 21 Starlink Satellites to Orbit from Florida

SpaceX sent another group of Starlink satellites to space today (Aug. 10) as the company continues to assemble its giant internet constellation.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink spacecraft to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT), after a one-day weather delay.

As is typical for these missions, the first stage of Falcon 9 made a soft landing back on Earth roughly eight minutes after launch, touching down on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

This was the 21st time this first stage made the journey to space and back, according to SpaceX. That's just one mission shy of the SpaceX rocket reuse record.

The upper stage of the Falcon 9 deployed the Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit about 64 minutes after liftoff as planned, according to SpaceX.

Today's launch was the fourth for SpaceX in August already, after other Starlink launches on Aug. 2 and Aug. 4 and the launch of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Aug. 4.

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