Live coverage: Kennedy Space Center to reopen Friday

The dual mission satellite will help better monitor both weather patterns as well as air quality over Europe and North Africa. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, July 1, at 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 UTC).

Arianespace’s first launch of 2020 lifted off at 4:05 p.m. EST (2105 GMT; 6:05 p.m. French Guiana time) Thursday from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern shore of South America. An Ariane 5 rocket launched the Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT 30 communications satellite for Eutelsat and the Indian Space Research Organization.

The flight will include 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, of which 13 have Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 10:19 a.m. EST (1519 UTC).