Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch

SpaceX struck out for a third time in as many days attempting to launch the Starlink 10-2 mission. After pushing back the launch time a few times within their window of availability on Friday, an abort was called just as the Merlin engines at the base of the 70-meter-tall (299 feet) rocket ignited.

A commercial Dragon supply freighter built and owned by SpaceX rocketed into a clear blue sky over Florida’s Space Coast Thursday with a menagerie of research experiments and holiday surprises heading for the International Space Station.

Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was at 3:19 p.m. EST (2019 UTC) on Thursday Nov. 7. It was the 72nd Starlink launch of 2024.