Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

The mission will bring SpaceX close to having 7,000 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 UTC).

This was the first of planned back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from Florida, less than four hours apart. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-89 mission happened at 10:08 p.m. EST (0308 UTC).

Russia’s next Progress cargo freighter rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday in a final move before blasting off Thursday at the tip of a Soyuz rocket to resupply and refuel the International Space Station.