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Musk’s SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit
- Mission exceeds last year’s record total for rocket company
- Payloads aboard Falcon 9 are for customers in 17 countries
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SpaceX notched its 19th launch of the year Monday, lofting 64 small spacecraft from 34 organizations into low Earth orbit.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast at about 10:34 a.m. local time. The customer was Spaceflight Industries, a Seattle-based company that organized the launch on behalf of several clients.