On Thursday morning, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Central Florida.
The rocket lifted off Thursday at 4:36 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
This was the 22nd flight of the first stage booster, which successfully returned to Earth, where it landed on the unmanned spacecraft A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.
28 Starlink satellites will be launched into low Earth orbit, where they will join a constellation of thousands of satellites that will provide high-speed, low-latency internet coverage worldwide.
The launch took place just hours before the scheduled liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 carrying 27 satellites for Amazon's competing internet project.
The launch window lasts 29 minutes.
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