{"id":62333,"date":"2026-07-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=68d01af80992cbe072ef1064c35ad2c9"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:48:59","slug":"watch-a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-for-record-breaking-36th-time-early-on-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/08\/watch-a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-for-record-breaking-36th-time-early-on-july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for record-breaking 36th time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9).<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> lifted off from Florida's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33926-cape-canaveral.html\"><u>Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/u><\/a> on Thursday at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT), carrying 29 of the company's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/PCNB0pgd.html\" id=\"PCNB0pgd\" title=\"SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on booster's record-breaking 35th flight, nails landing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>This particular booster, known as 1067, had already completed 35 orbital missions, more than any other SpaceX rocket in history. The overall record is held by NASA's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18187-space-shuttle-discovery.html\"><u>space shuttle Discovery<\/u><\/a>, which flew to orbit and back 39 times.<\/p><p>Thursday's flight extended Booster 1067's company record. The rocket returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff, landing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> drone ship \"A Shortfall of Gravitas\" stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. <\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3000px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.27%;\"><img id=\"Xi4APy9TTKvCavnW7iKqrP\" name=\"starlink launch July 9\" alt=\"view of rocket launch streak and the rentry landing of the booster\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/v2\/t:312,l:0,cw:3000,ch:1688,q:80\/Xi4APy9TTKvCavnW7iKqrP.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/v2\/t:312,l:0,cw:3000,ch:1688,q:80\/Xi4APy9TTKvCavnW7iKqrP.jpg'  class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">This SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for a record-breaking 36th time on July 9.  <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, hauled the 29 Starlink satellites to LEO and deployed them there 63.5 minutes after launch as planned.<\/p><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous Booster 1067 missions<\/div><div class=\"fancy_box_body\"><p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-dragon-crs-22-nasa-cargo-launch-success\"><strong>CRS-22<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-3-dragon-astronauts-launch\"><strong>Crew-3<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-turksat-5b-launch-success\"><strong>Turksat 5B<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-4-nasa-astronaut-launch-webcast\"><strong>Crew-4<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crs-25-cargo-mission-launch-success\"><strong>CRS-25<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-hotbird-13g-telecom-satellite-launch\"><strong>Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launch-2-mpower-communication-satellites-from-florida\"><strong>O3B mPOWER<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-psn-satria-indonesian-satellite-launch\"><strong>PSN SATRIA<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-telkomsat-merah-putih-2-satellite-launch\"><strong>Telkomsat Marah Putih 2<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-galileo-l13-satellite-navigation-launch\"><strong>Galileo L13<\/strong><\/a> | <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launching-koreasat-6a-satellite-today-on-record-tying-23rd-flight\"><strong>Koreasat-6A<\/strong><\/a> | <strong>24 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Thursday's launch was the 80th Falcon 9 mission of the year already. About 80% of the rocket's 2026 flights have been devoted to building out Starlink, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled.<\/p><p>The megaconstellation currently consists of more than 10,700 active satellites, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><u>tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/u><\/a>. And, as Thursday's launch shows, that number is growing all the time.<\/p><p><em><strong>Editor's note:<\/strong><\/em><em> This story was updated at 5:40 a.m. ET with news of successful rocket launch and landing.<\/em><\/p><div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">                                <div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-eM3blO\"><\/div>                            <\/div>                            <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/eM3blO.js\" async><\/script>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liftoff occurred at 5:25 a.m. ET on Thursday (July 9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2799,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches-amp-spacecraft","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62365,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62333\/revisions\/62365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}