SpaceX extended its single-year launch record on Monday night (Nov. 10), sending yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites up from Florida's Space Coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off off Monday at 10:21 p.m. EST (0321 GMT on Nov. 11) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 29 Starlink spacecraft toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

The rocket's first stage returned to Earth as planned 8.5 minutes later. It made a vertical, propulsive landing on the SpaceX drone ship "Just Read the Instructions," which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

It was the third flight for this particular booster, which is designated 1096. On its previous missions, the first stage launched NASA's IMAP space-weather mission and a batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites.

The Falcon 9

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