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Robert Z. Pearlman

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites, lands Falcon rocket for 500th time (video)

A white and black rocket lifts off into a partially cloudy sky above the East Coast of the United States, riding atop the bright white exhaust of its nine engines.

SpaceX notched another big reusability milestone on Friday (Sept. 5).

The company founded by billionaire Elon Musk launched 28 of its Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off Friday at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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