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FLORIDA TODAY photographers captured a gallery of images of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaking across the darkness Jan. 18 above Brevard County.
SpaceX on Sunday (Jan. 18) sent a new batch of 29 Starlink satellites ( Group 6-100) into low Earth orbit. At 6:31 p.m. EDT (2331 GMT), the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Japan’s H3 rocket suffered engine trouble on December 22, 2025, and failed to place a Japanese navigation satellite into orbit.
Up for a rocket launch this MLK weekend? Weather permitting, a SpaceX rocket should be visible from the Treasure and Space Coasts after liftoff.
The Toronto-based company has already raised $6.2-million from the Business Development Bank of Canada, a Crown corporation, and a range of private investors including Toronto-based Garage Capital. Canada Rocket Company says the capital that it has raised is the largest round of all-Canadian seed funding ever for a space and defence startup.