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SpaceX Launches Communications Satellite for Arabsat from Florida.

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Source: Florida Today
SpaceX Launches Communications Satellite for Arabsat from Florida.
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SpaceX is targeting Tuesday into Wednesday for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket's 162-foot first stage will target a landing on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Weather conditions are only 30% "go," but teams have a more than two-hour window that opens at 11:25 p.m. EDT to launch Arabsat's BADR-8 satellite from Launch Complex 40.

Topics:science#badr-8#cape-canaveral#falcon-9#launch#space#spacex
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