SpaceX didn’t wind up launching two rockets on the same day after all, but it did manage just before sunset to send up one carrying a satellite for Argentina that can monitor the environment for things such as landslides or oil spills.
At 7:19 p.m. a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SAOCOM 1B satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40. It was SpaceX’s first-ever polar orbit launch from the Cape, meaning the payload will fly along the eastern coast of Florida. Read more here.
