SpaceX Puts Commercial Satellite in Orbit as Florida Sleeps
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched a Falcon 9 carrying a customer satellite early Tuesday, its fifth mission in what is expected to be a record year for Elon Musk’s company.
The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida around 12:33 a.m. local time. The payload, a communications satellite for Spain’s Hispasat, will “contribute to the reduction of the digital divide in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa,” the Madrid-based broadcaster of Spanish- and Portuguese-language content said in a statement.