2020-06-04 00:48:47, , Yahoo Finance
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Newbies can enjoy not only the spectacular sight of the Falcon 9 rocket heading to space today, but also the incredible moment minutes later when the booster returns to Earth and lands upright on a barge off the coast of Florida.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida before deploying 60 small satellites for the ambitious Starlink project aimed at providing broadband services for customers globally.
How to watch the SpaceX Starlink launch liveConditions permitting, the launch will take place around 6:25 p.m. PT.
You can watch a livestream of the launch starting at 6 p.m. PT in the player above.
Starlink has, however, been causing concern among astronomers who fear that the satellites' reflective surfaces will hinder their ability to get a clear view of deep space, and also interfere with radio wavelengths used during their space exploration work.
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