A brand-new SpaceX rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).

SpaceX successfully launched 23 Starlink satellites from Florida in the first launch of its new Falcon 9 booster.

On the night of May 20, a SpaceX rocket launched from Cape Canaveral for its first time. The mission was the latest batch of Starlink satellites.