BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday morning from Florida’s Space Coast.
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The rocket was set to launch over the weekend before it was scrubbed with less than one minute on the countdown clock.
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— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 12, 2024
This Falcon 9 rocket is aiming to send more Starlink satellites into orbit.
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The launch happened at 6:37 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX said this will be the 17th flight for the first stage booster, which previously launched SES-22, ispace’s HAKUTO-R MISSION 1, Amazonas-6, CRS-27, Bandwagon-1, and 11 Starlink missions.
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SpaceX also landed the first-stage booster after the launch on one of the company’s droneships in the Atlantic
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