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SpaceX launches 60 satellites on Falcon 9 rocket Monday morning 🚀

Bookmark this page. First Coast News will be live streaming the launch at 9:56 a.m.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednsday afternoon, Jan. 31, 2018. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg.

SpaceX successfully launched 60 new Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Monday morning.

The launch happened at 9:56 a.m. It is the second launch of Starlink satellites.

Starlink satellites are being launched into Earth's orbit to help provide "a low latency, broadband internet system to meet the need of consumers" in the U.S. and Canada by 2020, then globally by 2021, according to a news release

"With performance that far surpasses that of traditional satellite internet ... Starlink will deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive or completely unavailable," according to Starlink's website.

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