Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch

The crew trained for more than two-and-a-half years to prepare for their spacewalk and an on-orbit Starlink demonstration. Launch is now no earlier than Friday, Aug. 30, weather permitting.

Spaceflight Now’s camera at the Kennedy Space Center’s Complex 39 press site captured this view of the Falcon 9 rocket’s high-altitude anomaly Sunday.

The payload onboard hasn’t been officially confirmed by a customer or the spacecraft manufacturer. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:51 p.m. EST (0051 UTC).