Monday's liftoff was the 94th launch of an orbital class rocket in the state, breaking the previous record set at the end of last year.
"Engines full power and lift off. Go SpaceX. Go Starlink," mission control said Monday as the rocket lifted off at 10:21 p.m. EST.
The commercial launch, which added 29 Starlink Internet satellites to the orbital constellation, had been scheduled for earlier in the day, but was delayed until after 10 p.m., due to a shortage of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown.
Florida's spaceport -- which covers NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station -- has seen a significant increase in the number of launches over the last five years, especially with the frequency of flights by SpaceX. The only other rockets to launch from Florida this year were Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket and three ULA Atlas V rockets.
For Monday's record-breaking launch, SpaceX used a newer booster. It was the third flight for the first-stage booster B1096, which also launched KF-01 for Amazon's Project Kuiper and NASA's IMAP rideshare mission earlier this year.
The first-stage booster conducted an autonomous landing just over eight minutes after liftoff on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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