SpaceX’s sunrise launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday was the 80th launch of the year on the Space Coast, which is on track to break the annual record and surpass 100 for the year.

A Falcon 9 carrying 28 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites on the Starlink 10-27 mission lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:53 a.m.

The first-stage booster made its 11th flight with a recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic.

Falcon 9 launches 28 @Starlink satellites from Florida pic.twitter.com/h42GRR7MAo

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 21, 2025

SpaceX has flown 76 of the 80 orbital flights from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral so far this year.

United Launch Alliance has flown three others using one Vulcan and two A

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