Elon Musk smiles during a new conference in 2020 after a SpaceX rocket test flight at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space mining company AstroForge is working with SpaceX on plans to extract minerals from asteroids.

"This is the first time that a rocket has taken off from one country, gone to space and landed in another country!" -- SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.

Construction of SpaceX’s Gigabay in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is set for launch. Federal Aviation Administration documents created last month indicate construction on the space exploration technology company’s new Starship Gigabay launchpad could begin as soon as April and wrap up in August 2026.

Nineteen orbital rockets launched from Florida's Space Coast during January and February, accelerating the 2025 Eastern Range schedule to a record-breaking pace that would topple last year's record of 93 annual liftoffs.

While SpaceX has yet to confirm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, liftoff is set to occur between 1 a.m. and 5:31 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. The mission is ironically known as Starlink 12-21. The payload is the next batch of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites.

Prepare for another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch tonight! Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of tonight’s SpaceX Starlink 12-20 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX is targeting 9:24 p.

The Gigabay is a large step towards launching Starship from Florida. SpaceX has Cape Canaveral facilities and already is manufacturing Starship tower segments in Florida and shipping them to Texas ...