Live coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the next batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites at 3:13 a.m. EST (0813 GMT) Thursday from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The reusable first stage successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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).

A new sunshade, or visor, designed to reduce the brightness of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband Internet satellites will debut on the company’s next launch, a measure intended to alleviate astronomers’ concerns about impacts on observations through ground-based telescopes, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday.