SpaceX Starlink Mission Launches Tuesday On Florida's 8th Mission Of 2025

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In the Space Coast's eighth launch of 2025 thus far , a SpaceX Falcon 9 took flight on another Starlink mission early Tuesday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Falcon 9 lifted off at 12:24 a.m. EST from pad 39A , ascending into low-Earth orbit to deploy a payload of 21 Starlink internet satellites.

In light of the cold front gripping the Sunshine State , risks of thick cloud layers and cumulus clouds spurred the Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron to spell out unusual variance for a 4½-hour Starlink launch window.

The squadron predicted an 85% chance of favorable weather early during the launch window, which opened at 12:13 a.m. — with those odds dropping off to 40% by the window's conclusion.

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However, no significant Central Florida cloud cover was present at liftoff across the Tampa Bay-Orlando-Space Coast corridor, per a National Weather Service radar loop from the Melbourne Orlando International Airport station shows.

The post-midnight mission marked the Falcon 9 first-stage booster's eighth flight, SpaceX reported.

The booster previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, and three Starlink missions. 

Following stage separation, the booster settled for a landing on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean a bit more than eight minutes after liftoff.