SpaceX successfully launched 23 Starlink satellites from Florida in the first launch of its new Falcon 9 booster.

A brand-new SpaceX rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).

On the night of May 20, a SpaceX rocket launched from Cape Canaveral for its first time. The mission was the latest batch of Starlink satellites.