About 1½ hours before sunrise, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket into flight on another Starlink mission on Thursday, Sept. 18, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
After lifting off in darkness from Launch Complex 40 at 5:30 a.m., the Falcon 9 deployed 28 broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit on the Starlink 10-61 mission.
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This article originally appeared on Florida Today: SpaceX launch photos: See Falcon 9 lift off before dawn from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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