Elon Musk hopes to expand SpaceX Starship operations in Florida as he continues to work toward launching to Mars in 2026. About that specific deadline

SpaceX aims to launch its super heavy-lift rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, by the end of the year. That’s bad news for the state’s commercial airports—and you.

The Falcon 9 rocket steered downrange and headed northeast from Florida's Space Coast. The rocket's first stage booster detached and returned to an on-target landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, while Falcon's upper stage propelled the X-37B into low-Earth orbit.

SpaceX's remote coastal launch site about 2.2 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border has hosted nine Starship test flights since April 2023.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (WFLA) — SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday morning. The launch is scheduled for 9:18 a.m. and is part of the KF-02 mission.

The launch is the first of two Starlink missions planned for the day. SpaceX has scheduled a second launch with 24 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:55 p.m. PDT local (11:55 p.m. EDT or 0355 GMT on July 27).

SpaceX's path to liftoff could be easier now that President Trump is easing regulations on commercial rocket launches.