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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The third time was the charm.
After two postponements -- one on Monday and one on Tuesday -- SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral, the latest in the company’s Starlink mission.
The launch took place at 8:02 a.m. Wednesday.
About eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Packed inside the 230-foot rocket’s fairing were about 60 Starlink internet satellites slated to join nearly 1,000 others already in low-Earth orbit. The launch marked the company’s 17th for the constellation, which will need dozens more flights to fulfill the goal of worldwide, space-based broadband coverage.
SpaceX late last year began expanding eligibility for public testing of the network, which runs $99 a month after $499 for equipment like the satellite dish and wireless router. Coverage is currently limited to the higher latitudes like Washington state, Montana, Michigan, and parts of Canada.
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