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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launches the USSF-44 mission to orbit from a launch complex at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. IMAGES
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched the world’s first all-electric satellites, which are lighter than conventional chemical-propulsion satellites and therefore cost less to launch.
SpaceX launches two satellites from Cape Canaveral. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
SpaceX carries out the third test launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Lift-off from the company's base in southeast Texas came around 8:25 am local time (1325 GMT) and was carried on a webcast viewed by more than 1.5 million people. IMAGES
SpaceX's 'Starship' rocket, the largest ever built, takes off from the space company's Texas launch site. CEO Elon Musk hopes the ship will one day colonize Mars and NASA is awaiting a modified version to land humans on the Moon. The first test in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico. IMAGES
From Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian Soyuz 2.1B rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites, from British operator OneWeb. IMAGES
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