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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast

Rocket sent 23 Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday evening.

The Falcon 9 rocket was set to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:17 p.m. on Sunday, but was scrubbed with 30 seconds remaining on the clock, according to SpaceX.

Monday’s liftoff happened at 7:20 p.m.

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The mission — Starlink 6-25 — will loft 23 Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit, marking the eighth flight taken by the first-stage booster SpaceX plans to use. That booster will attempt to land on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.


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