Another day, another SpaceX launch from the Space Coast

It had been five days since SpaceX sent up a batch of its internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company did it again Wednesday afternoon.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:01 p.m. with 56 more of the company’s Starlink satellites to add to its growing constellation.

The first-stage booster was making its fourth flight, and the company was able to recover it again on its droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

This is the 80th overall Starlink launch since the first operational deployment of the internet satellites in 2019. With this batch, SpaceX has sent up more than 4,200 of the 570-pound satellites, according to statistics tracked by astronomer Jonathan McDowell. The Federal Communications Commission last year upped SpaceX’s license to allow for up to 7,500.

It was the 17th launch from the Space Coast in 2023 with all but one coming from SpaceX, which was the 3D-printed Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket earlier this month.

It was SpaceX’s 21st launch this year from all of its launch sites including California, part of what could be up to 100 launches by the end of 2023.

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