SpaceX’s sunrise launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday morning sent its latest batch of broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit.
The Starlink 10-56 mission featured a payload of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites that successfully deployed roughly an hour after launch. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 7:10 a.m. EDT (1110 UTC).
SpaceX used the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1095, to launch this mission, which flew for a second time. It launched the Starlink 12-15 mission nearly 100 days ago on May 20, 2025.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1095 landed on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ marking the 133rd touchdown on this vessel and the 494th booster landing to date.
