SpaceX restarts Starlink launches after satellite mishap — and another Falcon 9 is already queued
Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan 5, 2026, 20:56 EST SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early Sunday, resuming deployments after an in-orbit anomaly last month sidelined one of its spacecraft and forced a delay to a planned mission. The launch matters now because Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite broadband network, relies on a steady cadence of Falcon 9 flights to expand coverage and replace aging satellites. The December incident also sharpened attention on space debris as traffic builds a few hundred kilometres above Earth. Starlink already has more than 9,300 satellites in orbit, according to tracking statistics cited by Spaceflight