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SpaceX launches next batch of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center

Launch set from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Another batch of Starlink satellites successfully launched Saturday atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

The rocket launched at 4:32 p.m. as scheduled from Launch Complex 39A.

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The launch follows nearly a day after SpaceX sendt the first two O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into medium-Earth orbit for SES of Luxembourg at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The launches were originally planned to be within minutes of each other, but the Starlink launch was moved to a day later.

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