SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida

SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites from Florida early Sunday morning (December 8).

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:12 a.m. EST (0512 GMT) on Sunday.

The first stage of the rocket landed as planned on the SpaceX drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean about eight minutes after launch.

According to a SpaceX mission description, it was the second launch and landing of this particular launch vehicle.