If you got a nickel every time SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites, you wouldn't be rich, but you'd have a lot of nickels.

Under such an arrangement, today (Nov. 6) would mark another payday, as SpaceX did, in fact, launch another Starlink mission this afternoon.

Starlink Group 11-14 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 4:13 p.m. EST (2113 GMT; 1:13 p.m. local California time), carrying 28 satellites to join the company's growing megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO).

It was the eighth flight for the first stage of this Falcon 9 booster, known as 1093, which completed a stage separation and successful deceleration burns, then aced a landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean about 8.5 minutes afte

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