A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 30, 2026. As has almost become the norm, SpaceX launched two more batches of Starlink satellites over the course of two days from dual coasts. Then today (Jan. 30), another Falcon 9 flew from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 29, 2026. Thursday and Friday's launches raised the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit over the 9,600 mark, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell.