When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX launched a stack of 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this morning, Feb. 21, adding to the company's growing space-based internet fleet. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink batch lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday, at 10:19 p.m. EST (1519 GMT), against the sunny, blue sky of Florida's Space Coast. About eight minutes into flight, following stage separation and deceleration burns, the Falcon 9 booster returned to Earth, downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. The booster, B1076, touched down on SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast on Friday (Feb. 21). (Image credit: SpaceX) The successful landing wraps up the 21st flight for B1076, according to a SpaceX, and its twelfth Starlink mission. You may like