A Falcon 9 like the one pictured here launched early Thursday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida.
The rocket launched at 4:36 a.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
It was the 22nd flight for the first-stage booster, which successfully returned to Earth where it landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 28 Starlink satellites are to be jettisoned into low-Earth orbit where they will join a constellation of thousands that offer high-speed, low-latency Internet coverage worldwide.
