Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The first of two planned launches lifted off Wednesdsay night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
If both launches go off in the doubleheader, the yearly record of 93 from Florida will be tied. The other Space Coast site is the Kennedy Space Center. The skies in the area were clear with the full moon in the west, Florida Today reported.
Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/3OYJOgle82— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 6, 2025
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with 29 Starlink satellites at 8:31 p.m. EST with a window originally 6:09 p.m. from Launch Complex 40. About eight minutes later, the fifth flight for the first-stage booster, including a Crew-11 flight and one Starlink mission, landed on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions on the Atlantic Ocean.
Less than two hours later, a rival company -- United Launch Alliance -- planned to launch no earlier than 10:24 p.m. an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Complex 41 for the second in Viasat's satellite fleet. The rocket, which weighs 6 tons, includes five boosters, will launch the payload in an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit.
