Spectacular liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Jean Wright of Space UpClose is front and center as we watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL – with NASA VAB in view. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
TITUSVILLE, FL – Following an unexplained scrub on Monday, SpaceX did finally successfully carry out a beautiful noontime launch of another batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites on Tuesday, Aug. 11 from the Florida Space Coast
Spectacular liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission took place at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Spectacular liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. We watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL – with NASA VAB in view. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
Blastoff took place into a mostly clear blue sky and was enjoyed by dozens and dozens of spectators joining us at Space View Park along the Indian River lagoon in Titusville – as well as hundreds more all along the river in Titusville and elsewhere in the Space Coast region
Spectacular liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. We watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
The veteran Falcon 9 rocket F9 B1085.18 soared on a northeasterly trajectory up the US East Coast
90 Second Daylight Timelapse Streak to Orbit: Liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. We watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL – with NASA VAB in view. 3 x 30 second composite image taken from Space View Park. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
Enjoy our photos taken by Ken Kremer and Jean Wright for Space UpClose
Falcon 9 B1085.18 carried a payload of 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites that were successfully delivered to low Earth orbit (LEO), SpaceX confirmed by tweet.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2087222687399657788
“Deployment of 29 @Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted
Spectacular liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Jean Wright of Space UpClose is front and center as we watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL – with NASA VAB in view. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
This was the 18th flight for the first stage booster B1085.18 supporting this mission – which previously launched which previously launched Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, EchoStar XXV, SXM-11, and now 10 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the first stage landed upright on the A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Carolinas.
Spectacular liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 10-19 mission at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 UTC) on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. We watched from Space View Park along the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville, FL – with NASA VAB in view. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
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