SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 25 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from California on Monday night, after upper-level winds pushed the liftoff back a day.
The spacex falcon 9 rocket launch took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc around 7:50 p.m., adding another batch of internet satellites to Elon Musk’s growing Starlink constellation.
Starlink now includes over 10,000 satellites and continues to expand as SpaceX builds out a network that provides high-speed, low-latency internet to millions of people around the world from space. The launch had been planned for Sunday, but SpaceX said the winds forced the company to wait until Monday night.
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The flight was visible far beyond the launch site. Several people sent FOX 5/KUSI photos of the glowing white trail the rocket left behind as it carried the satellites into orbit, and the bright streak was seen over San Diego.
That visibility matched the scale of the system SpaceX is assembling. The constellation is the largest ever in history, and each launch adds more capacity to a network that already reaches users across the globe.
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For SpaceX, the delay changed the schedule but not the outcome: another Falcon 9 launch, another 25 satellites in orbit, and another step in a network that keeps growing after dark.
