SpaceX knocks out Sunday launch while targeting 2nd try for massive Starship this week

SpaceX added to the Space Coast’s growing tally of launches for the year with a Sunday night liftoff while gearing up potentially for another attempt of sending its new Starship and Super Heavy rocket up on an orbital test flight later this week.

A Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:08 p.m., sending up a pair of satellites for Luxembourg-based SES.

This is the third time SpaceX has sent up a pair of SES’s O3b mPOWER satellites, which are headed for medium-Earth orbit.