WATCH: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX says it has successfully launched another rocket from Florida’s Space Coast.

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The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:12 a.m. Friday.

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The rocket will send 23 new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

The satellites will help increase internet service around the globe.

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SpaceX confirmed that shortly after the launch, the rocket’s first stage booster landed on its droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitias” in the Atlantic Ocean.

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