Photos: Falcon takes flight

The Starlink 10-34 mission was SpaceX’s 80th Falcon 9 launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 40 occurred at 12:26 a.m. EDT (0426 UTC).

The launch came on the heels of the Crew-8 mission sending three astronauts and a cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station. Liftoff took place on Monday, March 4, at 6:56 p.m. EST (2356 UTC).

The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.