SpaceX will notch two big milestones on a single Falcon 9 launch today (Oct. 19), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch 28 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a four-hour window that opens at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT).
SpaceX has lofted 9,988 Starlink satellites to date, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell. So today's launch will take that number above 10,000. It will also be the record-breaking 31st liftoff for this Falcon 9's first stage, a booster designated 1067.
You can see history made live: SpaceX will stream the flight via its website and its X account, beginning about five minutes before launch.
SpaceX launched its first two Starlink prototypes t