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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch attempt again set for Thursday

High upper-level winds derailed two launch attempts last week.
Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a demo Crew Dragon spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, March 2, 2019.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Third time's the charm? SpaceX is hoping that's the case so it can launch satellites into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

High upper-level winds derailed two launch attempts last week. The next window for launch opens at 10:30 p.m. Thursday from Pad 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Packed together atop the Falcon 9 rocket are the first 60 Starlink communications satellites, bringing Elon Musk's company one step closer to the goal of providing worldwide internet coverage from space.

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Musk said six more rocket launches of 60 satellites each will be needed for "minor" internet coverage. For "moderate" coverage, they'll need a dozen launches.

Two weeks after the Falcon Heavy launch in February 2018, a Falcon 9 rocket sent the first two Starlink satellites into space. Those two, nicknamed Tintin-A and Tintin-B, were "pathfinders."  

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