The Blue Origin rocket was delayed to no earlier than 1 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12 due to unfavorable conditions offshore. The company delayed the launch to maximize chances at successfully landing the first-stage of the new rocket on its drone ship in the Atlantic. This brings the SpaceX launch to the front of the line.

The Space Coast is in for a possible double-header. Hours after New Glenn launches on its first flight, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9.

SpaceX is gearing up to launch another batch of Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida on Wednesday morning.

The launch will take place at 10:27 a.m. at the  Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, where a Falcon 9 rocket will carry the satellites into space.

The West Coast’s first launch of 2025 on Thursday also marked the seventh for the growing constellation of spacecraft to serve the nation's spy satellite

Coming off a record-setting 2024, SpaceX continued an aggressive launching schedule with the liftoff Wednesday morning of a Falcon 9 rocket that carried 21 Starlink satellites into lower-Earth orbit.