SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches SiriusXM radio broadcasting satellite
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SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday from Cape Canaveral, this one boosting the SiriusXM-8 radio satellite into orbit to relay entertainment programming to receivers in cars, boats, homes and offices.
The previous Maxar-built satellite in the series, SXM-7, failed a few weeks after launch atop another Falcon 9 last December. But two older relay stations remain fully operational and SiriusXM plans to build a replacement for the one that failed. The latest mission got under way at 12:26 a.m. EDT when the Falcon 9 on pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station fired up its nine first stage engines, pushing the 229-foot-tall rocket into a cloudy overnight sky with a roaring jet of fiery exhaust. It was the company's 18th Falcon 9 flight so far this year and its 121st overall.
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