A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Feb. 15), rising off a pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:14 a.m. EST (0614 GMT).

SpaceX crews are preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast. The launch is set for 1:53 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch is aiming to send another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit.

An overnight SpaceX early Saturday used a booster that had already flown to space 25 times. The 26th came off without a hitch.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce as it seeks to revamp its operations to better compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Blue Origin has drawn unfavorable comparisons to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which leapfrogged many startups to become the world’s most prolific rocket launcher.

In the memo to staff, Blue Origin's chief executive, Dave Limp, said the job cuts are part of a plan to trim managerial ranks and focus resources on ramping up rocket launches. Blue Origin has recently completed the first test flight of its New Glenn rocket,