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WATCH: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Space Coast

SpaceX launch The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Thursday. (SpaceX)

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Another batch of Starlink satellites is in orbit following a rocket launch from our Space Coast.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying those satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:07 a.m. Thursday.

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The mission sent the 23 Starlinks into low-Earth orbit for the company’s high-speed internet network.

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About 8 minutes later, SpaceX said the rocket’s first-stage booster successfully landed on “Just Read the Instructions,” a droneship located in the Atlantic Ocean.

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