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).

The launch takes place on a milestone date, marking 20 years since the STS-114 space shuttle mission took off from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B. The launch of Discovery on the STS-114 mission on July 26, 2005, marked the return to flight for the space shuttle after the Columbia tragedy investigation.

See photos from the Starlink 10-26 mission, which launched 5:01 a.m. July 26 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Depending on weather and clouds, rocket launches from Cape Canaveral may be seen as far south as West Palm Beach, Florida.

Many in our viewing area have reported seeing a strange light in the sky Saturday morning. That light was actually from an early-morning SpaceX launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to the SpaceX website, at 5:01 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral.

Who's up for an early morning rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket should be visible along the Space Coast on Saturday.

Live updates from the July 22 SpaceX SES O3b mPOWER satellite mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets with satellites after they were scrubbed less than a minute before liftoff one day earlier in Florida and California.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two powerful communications satellites today (July 22), then aced its landing on a ship at sea.