SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Tuesday night with 20 Starlink satellites, including some with direct-to-cell capabilities that will improve access to text and voice data on Earth. "Ignition and liftoff.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (June 4), including 13 that can beam service directly to smartphones. The Starlink spacecraft will take flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida tonight at 10:16 p.m. EDT (0216 GMT on June 5).

While in the past months SpaceX has been launching Group 6 satellites from Cape Canaveral, Tuesday marked the first batch of Group 8 satellites launched from the Space Coast. With this launch aiming for a different orbit, it traveled in a northeast trajectory.

SpaceX is set to launch yet another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit this evening (May 31). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the broadband craft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a nearly three-hour window that opens at 7:47 p.m. EDT (2347 GMT).

SpaceX will launch its next round of 23 Starlink Internet satellites into low-Earth orbit on Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 40.

The flight, if successful, will rival SpaceX's prolific Crew Dragon capsule and expand American options for ferrying astronauts to the international space station.

Live updates from Tuesday night’s SpaceX Starlink 8-5 mission that launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 40.

SpaceX launched another 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after launching a group of U.S. spy satellites from California.