The company said Sunday that the satellites were launched at 3:10 a.m. local time by a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
After the launch, the first-stage booster landed on a barge called A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The launch marked the 28th flight for the first-stage booster, which previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and now 24 Starlink missions.
It came after a fireball was spotted around 6:18 a.m. Saturday morning by Florida Today and Spaceflight Now contributor John Pisanias as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was preparing to make a launch attempt at the site.
According to Spaceflight Now, the fireball appeared to be a satellite reentry and experts online speculated that it was likely a Chinese CZ-3B upper stage.
The Falcon 9 rocket launch Saturday was scrubbed due to weather conditions, and it was the rocket launched Sunday morning.
It marked SpaceX's 93rd rocket launch from Florida's Space Coast this year, tying the region's record for most launches in a year.
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