Watch the Falcon 9 test fire its engines ahead of Starlink launch (members only)

The spacecraft is Turkey’s first home-grown communications satellite. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 UTC).

Two panels of managers and scientists presented details of SpaceX’s 16th operational resupply flight to the International Space Station on the eve of its launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

Spectators on South Padre Island watch the Starship prototype end its test flight in a fiery crash landing.