SpaceX Falcon 9 puts on spectacular sunset sky show boosting 2 Intelsat satellites to orbit
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Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturday evening in the company's third Falcon 9 launch in as many days. It followed two flights Wednesday, one from each coast, that were just seven hours apart.
Using a first stage making its 14th flight — the most yet for a non-SpaceX commercial customer — the latest Falcon 9 blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT and climbed away on a due-east trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean.
After dropping off the well-used first stage for recovery on a SpaceX landing barge, the rocket's upper stage propelled the two-satellite payload out of the discernible atmosphere, and released them into elliptical "transfer" orbits, as planned, about 40 minutes after launch.
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