SpaceX rocket double play! Falcon 9 soars over Falcon Heavy in gorgeous launch photo
. The big rocket is now scheduled to lift off Friday night, during a 99-minute window that opens at 11:04 p.m. EDT . You can watch it live here at Space.com when the time comes., the largest commercial communications satellite ever built.SpaceX ended up pushing the Falcon 9 launch further back Thursday night — all the way into Friday morning, in fact. The rocket lifted off at 12:01 a.m. EDT , carrying yet more satellites for SpaceX's huge and ever-growing Starlink constellation.
SpaceX posted a few other photos of the liftoff — the company's 50th of 2023 already — on Friday morning as well. Those shots don't feature the Falcon Heavy, but they're gorgeous nonetheless.For example, two of them show the Falcon 9 barreling through a vapor vortex of its own creation. Another is a more standard beauty shot of the rocket rising off the pad, the flames from its nine first-stage Merlin engines lighting up its billowing exhaust plume and the four lightning towers surrounding the launch pad.
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