SpaceX completed its 60th launch of the year Thursday morning from the Space Coast with the Falcon 9 mission, which sent five satellites into space. The rocket, carrying the BlueBird 1-5 mission, lifted off at 4:52 a.m. from Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral.

The first stage of the booster made its 13th flight, bringing a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida along with a return to Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1 eight minutes after liftoff.

The payloads are the first of five satellites in a new satellite constellation for AST SpaceMobile, based in Midland, Texas, part of a space-based broadband cellular network in low Earth orbit that will be accessible by everyday smartphones as well as for commercial and government use.

Beta users will be for AT&T and Verizon, with possible coverage in the U.S. and select global markets. SpaceX is attempting to break the 2023 record for most launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral. It accomplished 68 last year, and has completed 60 of 64 launches so far in 2024 among all Space Coast launch sites, with the other four from United Launch Alliance.

Of those 60 Falcon Heavy launches, all but one have been the company’s most powerful, the Falcon 9. But the next launch from Kennedy Space Center will likely be this year’s second Falcon Heavy, as part of NASA’s mission to send the Europa Clipper satellite to Jupiter’s icy moon.

That launch is set to occur at least through Oct. 13, but mission preparations at KSC’s 39-A launch pad will begin soon. SpaceX’s next launch from Cape Canaveral is scheduled for Sunday, when the Falcon 9 plans to send up the Galileo L-13 mission during a launch window that will run from 6:48 p.m. to 7:09 p.m.

This year, SpaceX completed 43 launches from Cape Canaveral and 17 from KSC.

Three of KSC’s launches were manned spaceflights, including the latest, Polaris Dawn, which launched early Tuesday and is in the middle of a five-day orbital mission that marks the first commercial spacewalk.

SpaceX has two more crewed flights planned for 2024, including the Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station on September 24. However, because of the Europa Clipper mission, SpaceX and NASA decided to move to Canaveral for what would be the first human spaceflight via SLC-40.

SpaceX aims to break the launch record among all its sites in 2024 with 29 flights from its facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, as well as two test orbital launches of the in-development Starship and Super Heavy. Starbase will fly a total of 91 missions per year from its Texas facility. In 2023, it flew 98 missions across all four platforms, including 91 Falcon 9s, five Falcon Heavys and two Starship tests.