SpaceX is planning to launch another batch of Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, on a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday.

The year's last rocket launch from SpaceX is set to blast off from Florida's Space Coast early Tuesday morning.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday morning. The launch of 21 more Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, happened at 12:35 a.m. Liftoff took place at Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024. This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.

SpaceX put the final countdown in the books for the Space Coast early Tuesday, adding one more to the record pace of launches for the year. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 12:39 a.