Live coverage: SpaceX successfully performs Crew Dragon abort test

The mission carried into orbit 24 V2 Mini Starlink satellites, which appears to be the maximum that can be flown on a single Falcon 9 launch. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened on Monday, Nov. 11 at 4:28 p.m. EST (2128 UTC).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into space from Cape Canaveral and deployed a Turkish communications satellite Thursday night, the first of more than 40 Falcon rocket missions scheduled this year from launch pads in Florida and California.

The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.