Video: Falcon 9 rocket test-fired at pad 39A (members only)

The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket occurred less than three hours after the planned Falcon Heavy launch. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-36 mission happened at 11:01 p.m. EST (0401 UTC).

Orbital ATK and SpaceX won Pentagon contracts worth a combined value of up to $241 million Wednesday in public-private partnerships crafted to hasten the U.S. military’s move away from Russian-supplied propulsion to deliver national security satellites to orbit.

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2:07 a.m. EDT (0607 GMT) Monday with 38 small and medium-size satellites for customers in 18 countries.