SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Sunday, a day after a fireball was spotted in the sky off the coast of Florida.

The company said Sunday that the satellites were launched at 3:10 a.m. local time by a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

After the launch, the first-stage booster landed on a barge called A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

The launch marked the 28th flight for the first-stage booster, which previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and now 24 Starlink missions.

It came after a fireball was spotted around 6:18 a.m. Saturday morning by Florida Today and Spaceflight Now c

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