The Space Coast’s record rocket train of 2025 kept rolling with the first launch of December early Monday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 with 29 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 2:44 a.m. marking the first of at least five planned launches on the Space Coast in the next two weeks.

This was the fourth launch of the first-stage booster, which made a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic.

It marked the 102nd launch from either KSC or neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this year, with SpaceX responsible for all by seven of them. SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin combined to surpass the 2024 record of 93 launches last month with the Space Coast on target to co

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