KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Coming off the heels of a failed Starship launch, SpaceX sent up a Starlink mission Wednesday morning, despite the weather looking uncertain. 

The Falcon 9 rocket took off carrying the Starlink 10-32 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 9:30 a.m. ET, stated SpaceX. 

The nearly four-hour launch window opened at 9:30 a.m. ET and was set to close at 1:17 p.m. ET.

This means the California-based company had during that timeframe to launch its rocket.

The 45th Weather Squadron did give a “15%→60%” chance against the launch, citing the main concerns being cumulus cloud, anvil cloud and surface electric fields rules.

Find out more about the weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch.

If there was a scrub, the next attempt would have been on Thursday at 9:08 a.m. ET.

Going up

This is the 19th mission for the Falcon 9's first-stage booster old B1080. It has had a number of important missions, including two crewed launches:

1. ESA’s Euclid telescope
2. Ax-2 crew mission
3. Starlink 6-11 mission
4. Starlink 6-24 mission
5. Ax-3 crew mission
6. CRS-30 mission
7. Starlink 6-52 mission
8. Starlink 6-62 mission
9. ASTRA 1P
10.  NG-21 resupply mission
11.  Starlink 10-10 mission
12.  Starlink 6-69 mission
13.  Starlink 12-1 mission
14.  Starlink 12-2 mission
15.  Starlink 12-4 mission
16. Starlink 10-12 mission
17. Starlink 6-80 mission
18. Starlink 6-75 mission

After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

About the mission

The 27 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there.

Once deployed and in their orbit, they will provide internet service to many parts of Earth.

Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been recording Starlink satellites.

Before this launch, McDowell recorded the following:

• 7,586 are in orbit
• 6,731 are in operational orbit