Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

SpaceX conducted the first hold-down firing of an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 rocket Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for launch next week with Bangladesh’s first communications satellite.

The next liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been reset for no earlier than Feb. 8, NOAA and NASA officials said Tuesday, apparently to give the launch provider more time to prepare for the mission.

The mission, dubbed Starlink 15-8, was SpaceX’s 70th Falcon 9 launch of the year. Lifted off from pad 4 East at 7:20 a.m. PDT (10:20 a.m. EDT, 1420 UTC).