SpaceX's Falcon 9 bolted off the pad at 12:38 p.m. at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying 28 Starlink satellites.

After a string of nighttime launches from Florida's Space Coast, SpaceX aims to send up a Falcon 9 rocket today during a lunch-hour launch. Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of today's SpaceX Starlink 6-67 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Project Kuiper’s constellation aims tot total more than 3,600 satellites by 2028. SpaceX’s Starlink, which already has had more than 8,500 satellites launched since 2019, has nearly 6,700 that remain operational in orbit, according to statistics maintained by astronomer Jonathan McDowell.