BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday morning, only 12 hours after another rocket company suffered a massive explosion during a test.
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The launch happened at 8:57 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The mission aims to send another batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
There was some uncertainty if the launch would even happen as planned due to a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploding around 9 p.m. on Thursday during a “hotfire” test at Space Launch Complex 36.
SpaceX also successfully landed the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster on one of its droneships in the Atlantic Ocean after the launch.
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