A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a spare satellite for Globalstar’s messaging and data relay network early Sunday.
It launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly before 12:30 a.m.
, to place the 1,543-pound Globalstar satellite into low Earth orbit, according toAfter liftoff, the stage one rocket landed safely on the "Just Read the Instructions" drone ship out in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
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