SpaceX just extended its single-year launch record yet again.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today (Nov. 5) at 8:31 p.m. EST (0131 GMT on Nov. 6) from Space Launch Complex-40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 29 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

It was the 141st Falcon 9 liftoff of 2025 and SpaceX's 146th launch of the year overall. The company has also launched five suborbital test flights of its Starship megarocket so far this year.

SpaceX has increased its launch cadence every year since 2019, when it conducted 13 orbital flights. In 2024, SpaceX launched 138 missions, 134 of them orbital and the other four Starship test flights.

Starlink has been a huge driver of the recent boom in Falcon 9 launches. More than 100 of this y

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