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SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying heaviest payload to date into space

FOX 35 Orlando · November 11, 2019 · 4:35 · English · Launch

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Video from the channel FOX 35 Orlando about Falcon 9, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:35. Language: English. Video type: Launch.

A local Florida TV station broadcasts live a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites, presented as SpaceX's heaviest payload to date. The satellites join another 60 already in orbit, as part of a network that would need around 1,400 satellites to provide internet to the populated world.

The broadcast shows the countdown, liftoff, main engine cutoff, stage separation, second-stage ignition and the deployment of the first stage's grid fins. According to the presenters, the booster was flying for the fourth time and the payload fairing for the second, something unprecedented for SpaceX.

The ascent proceeds normally. The first stage was to land on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, in the Atlantic.

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