This was the 20th flight and recovery for this Falcon 9 first stage booster, and SpaceX's 341st recovery of an orbital-class rocket.

Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are gearing up for a busy January, including SpaceX Starlink internet satellite missions, Blue Origin's maiden flight of the mighty New Glenn rocket, and the NASA-SpaceX Blue Ghost moon lander mission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX announced that it’s gearing up for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday night. In a release, company officials said the launch will send a communications satellite into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on behalf of the UAE-based company Yahsat.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is preparing for its first Falcon 9 launch of 2025, which will send the Thuraya 4-NGS communication satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The company will open the four-hour launch window at 8:27 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 3.

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket Friday night, carrying the Thuraya 4 satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.