SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites

Oct. 19 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:31 p.m. EDT Friday.

The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff and landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean following its stage separation.

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