Q&A with Elon Musk after SpaceX’s first rocket landing

SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, on its launch pad in South Texas, is ready for the rocket’s most daring test flight yet.

The mission was the second of potentially three Falcon 9 flights set to take place this week. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 10:35 p.m. EDT (0235 UTC).

Two Falcon 9 rockets with reused first stage boosters will place the initial block of DigitalGlobe’s commercial WorldView Legion satellite fleet in orbit in 2021, the Earth-imaging company recently announced.