Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the GovSat 1 communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.
Three new crew members embarked on a six-month expedition aboard the International Space Station Thursday with a launch from Kazakhstan on top of a Russian Soyuz rocket at 0805 GMT (4:05 a.m. EDT). NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner docked with the space station at 1413 GMT (10:13 a.m. EDT) Thursday.
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