NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN on CARNIVAL VENEZIA CRUISE SHIP, 8 Dec 2025 – Rather incredibly we enjoyed another spectacular viewing of a gorgeous SpaceX jellyfish plume forming at sunset at sea over the North Atlantic Ocean during a record setting Falcon 9 Starlink mission launch on Dec. 8 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida!
Furthermore – As seen from over 2000 miles away near the island of Martinique !! by the Space UpClose team of Ken Kremer and Jean Wright
In fact we even observed stage separation of the 1st and 2nd stages
The veteran Falcon 9 soared off KSC pad 39 on its 32nd flight, while delivering SpaceX’s 3,000th Starlink satellite of the year to the rapidly expanding commercial satellite constellation circling in low Earth orbit (LEO).
We were so lucky to witness it – along with another bunch of cruisers following our lead and motivated to accompanying us for launch viewing during our recent cruise aboard the Carnival Venezia Cruise Ship to the Eastern & Southern Caribbean
Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-92 mission took place near sunset at 5:26 p.m. EST (2226 UTC), on Dec. 8. from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Poor weather delayed the launch by a day
We observed another giant space bright white jellyfish & stage separation – on this record setting 32nd flight of the fleet leading Falcon 9 B1067.32 1st stage booster.
It took well over 8 minutes after the 5:26 p.m EST liftoff before we finally caught sight of the Starlink 6-92 liftoff from KSC pad 39a at about 5:34 p.m. EST lofting 3000th Starlink satellite in 2025!
We watched it rise only very low in the sky soaring on a southeasterly trajectory almost directly towards us near Martinique more than 2000 miles away.
Unlike the prior mission launch Starlink 6-95 which flew directly over the Venezia, this time the Falcon 9 rocket soared to the left side of the ship as we were sailing northwards
This counts as the 3rd rocket launch seen by our intrepid group aboard Carnival Cruise Line Venezia Caribbean cruise in just 8 days – since leaving Port Canaveral on No. 30 – and with 1 or 2 more launches possibly to go!
Starlink 6-92 was carrying a payload of 29 Starlink broadband V2 minisatellites to LEO and thus crossed the threshold of 3000 Starlink broadband satellites launched to orbit in 2025
This was the 32nd flight for the first stage F9 B1067.32 booster supporting this mission, which previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, SES O3B mPOWER-A, PSN SATRIA, Telkomsat Merah Putih 2, Galileo L13, Koreasat-6A, and now 21 Starlink missions, per SpaceX.
Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) droneship, which was prepositioned in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas.
SpaceX has set a new goal of achieving 40 launches and landings per falcon 9 1st stage booster and is well on the way with F9 B1067.32
The previous launches we watched from Venezia all flew the same SE trajectory towards the ship and included:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-95 mission lifted near sunset at 5:18 p.m. EST (2218 UTC) on Dec. 2 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida
SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-86 mission lifted off at 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 UTC) on Dec. 1 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
While on the cruise I did an interview with WESH 2 NBC News Orlando about SpaceX receiving approval To build Starship launch pads at pad 37 on the Florida space coast
https://wesh.com/article/spacex-approval-starship-launch-pads-cape-canaveral/69599720
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