CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — During the early morning hours, SpaceX launched more than 50 Starlink satellites on Monday.

The company’s Falcon 9 rocket left Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to send 53 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

The launch window opened at 3:10 a.m. ET.

If the launch was pushed back, the next attempt would have been at 2:45 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 13.

On Sunday, the 45th Weather Squadron gave a 90% chance of good launch weather, with the only concern being the cumulus cloud rule.

Learn more about NASA’s weather criteria for the Falcon 9 rocket here.

Before the launch, the Falcon 9’s first-stage booster, called B1073, had eight successful missions on its resume:

• ispace's HAKUTO-R and NASA's Lunar Flashlight
• SES-22 telecommunications satellite
• Amazonas Nexus
• CRS-27
• 4 Starlink satellite missions

After the stage separation, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions that is in the Atlantic Ocean.

About the mission

The Starlink 5-11 mission launched 53 Starlink satellites into space, joining its mechanical brothers and sisters that are in orbit.

The satellites provide internet service to many parts of the globe, stated Starlink, a company owned by SpaceX.

Before Monday morning’s launch, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ astrophysicist Dr. Jonathan McDowell recorded the current information on the Starlink satellites: 4,218 are in orbit, with 4,181 in working order and 3,560 that are operational.

Watch the launch