Live updates from Saturday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 12-16 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

While SpaceX was busy Tuesday bringing astronauts home on one coast of Florida, it managed to send up a rocket from the other. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites lifted off at 3:57 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida this afternoon (March 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:57 p.m. EDT (1957 GMT).

"Raw plastic pellets come in, raw aluminum comes in, and we make those into the Starlink kits, and then ship them right out to customers homes."

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed up with NASA to send four astronauts to the International Space Station -- also from Florida.

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