When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX just notched a big spaceflight milestone. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company's Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Nov. 26) at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT on Wednesday, Nov. 27). The satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit about 65 minutes later as planned. It was the 400th successful mission for the workhorse rocket, which debuted in 2010, SpaceX announced via X on Wednesday (Nov. 27). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 26, 2024. It was the 400th successful Falcon 9 mission. (Image credit: SpaceX) The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth safely, touching down on the droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" in the Atlantic Ocean about eight minutes after liftoff. You may like