Watch SpaceX launch 49 Starlink internet satellites to orbit Sunday - Space.com

SpaceX plans to launch another set of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit on Monday (Jan. 30), and you can watch the action live.

The rocket's upper stage will continue carrying the 49 Starlink spacecraft to low Earth orbit, deploying all of them one hour and 17 minutes after launch.

SpaceX has already launched nearly 3,800 Starlink satellites(opens in new tab), and the huge constellation will continue to grow for quite some time: The company has permission to loft 12,000 of the internet spacecraft and has applied for approval to deploy about 30,000 more on top of that.

Though it's still very early, Elon Musk's company is on pace to break its single-year record of 61 orbital launches, which it set last year.

Liftoff had been scheduled for Jan. 29, but SpaceX pushed things back a day to finish prelaunch checkouts(opens in new tab).

Mike Wall is the author of " Out There(opens in new tab)" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life.