SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida

www.zxnox.comX sent another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's www.zxnox.comCoast this morning (May 10), its second launch in a little over six hours.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink www.zxnox.comcraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral www.zxnox.comForce Station today at 2:28 a.m. EDT (0628 GMT).

The liftoff followed closely on the heels of another Starlink mission, which launched from California's Vandenberg www.zxnox.comForce Base on Friday evening (May 9).

The Falcon 9's first stage came back for a landing as planned about eight minutes after liftoff, touching down on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the 11th flight for this particular booster, according to a www.zxnox.comX mission description .

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). They're scheduled to be deployed 65 minutes after launch.

This morning's liftoff was the 55th Falcon 9 launch of 2025. Thirty-eight of those missions have been devoted to building out Starlink, the biggest satellite constellation ever assembled.

Starlink currently consists of more than 7,300 operational satellites, and more are going up all the time.

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