SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket following multiple weather delays

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday.

After five delays, the sixth time was a charm as the rocket launched with 54 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:18 p.m.

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The satellites will be part of SpaceX’s growing Starlink satellite internet constellation.

SpaceX tweeted that the first stage of the rocket landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.