Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

SpaceX will attempt to land its 470th Falcon booster during the Starlink 15-7 mission. It’s targeting liftoff from pad 4E at 10:13 a.m. PDT (1:13 p.m. EDT, 1713 UTC) on Saturday, June 28.

SpaceX said Tuesday it won’t perform a final countdown dress rehearsal this week for the giant new Starship launch vehicle, and could send the rocket — standing nearly 40 stories tall on its Texas launch pad — on an around-the-world test flight as soon as next week.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:49 a.m. local time (8:49 a.m. EDT; 1249 GMT) Thursday on the classified National Reconnaissance Office NROL-55 mission.