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ORLANDO, Fla. — Despite a one-day delay in launching a SpaceX rocket with a moon-bound payload from Kennedy Space Center, the company had another lined up from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that took flight Wednesday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket on the classified USSF-124 mission for the Space Force blasted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:30 p.m. under blue skies. ...

SpaceX's nighttime launch of NASA's ocean-watching PACE satellite provided a perfect opportunity for some gorgeous launch photography.

After weather-caused delays, Nasa's PACE mission launched into a sun-synchronous orbit on Thursday.

The spacecraft will monitor the oceans and atmosphere of a warming planet in new ways.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Delayed two days because of weather, a NASA satellite that will look at the tiniest parts of the air and ocean is set for an early Thursday morning launch from the Space Coast that could shake households in Central Florida when the rocket’s booster creates a sonic boom during its recovery landing. Years in the works, the Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) ...

SpaceX is once again launching more Starlink satellites into orbit Saturday night.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX may not have had a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it did manage its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance, which is targeting the moon, was set to lift off with its first launch of the year about nine hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites carved up the dying blue skies ...

SpaceX may not have a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it is aiming to send up its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance is set to lift off with its first about 10 hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites is targeting a 4 p.m. Eastern liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...

SpaceX is targeting Sunday for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX aims to launch its Falcon 9 for the Ovzon 3 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Florida on Wednesday night.