Live updates from SpaceX’s Tuesday night GPS III-9 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

If you don’t want to leave your house, you can also watch the launch live on X @SpaceX. When you look to the sky, you will see a bright balloon-shaped streak following behind the rocket. This is a contrail, short for condensation trail, created when hot aircraft rips through cold water vapor high in the sky.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to take off from California Wednesday evening, carrying 25 Starlink satellites into orbit — and potentially producing sonic booms across parts of the Central Coast.

Live updates from SpaceX’s Friday morning Starlink 6-101 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.