SpaceX Launches 56 New Starlink Satellites

Photo: Starlink
Photo: Starlink

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -  SpaceX launched 56 new Starlink satellites into orbit early Sunday morning, then landed a rocket at sea.  

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Station just after 1 a.m. Eastern Time. The rocket's first stage returned to Earth eight and-a-half minutes after lift-off and landed on a SpaceX droneship stationed in the Atlantic.