SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Test Flight (December 8, 2010)

The Starlink 10-23 mission was SpaceX’s 260th orbital flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff occurred on Monday, June 23, at 1:58 a.m. EDT (0558 UTC).

Watch a time lapse replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it was raised upright at launch pad 39A in Florida on Saturday, a day before its scheduled launch with a top secret payload for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency.

The mission, dubbed ‘Astranis: From One to Many,’ includes the company’s new UtilitySat, which is designed to relocate within geostationary Earth orbit over its life to respond to different mission objectives.