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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off for its sixth flight of the year Monday from launch pad 39A in Florida, lofting an Inmarsat mobile broadband communications satellite to an orbit more than 40,000 miles above Earth. The Inmarsat 5 F4 satellite is en route to a circular geostationary orbit, where it will expand coverage provided…

Updated at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) May 16 with orbit figures. Credit: SpaceX A Boeing-built satellite on the way to join Inmarsat’s globe-spanning network geared to beam Internet and data transmission capacity to airline passengers, maritime crews and military personnel flew into orbit Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard an expendable…

Check out a replay of Monday evening’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this video recorded from the Launch Complex 39 Press Site around three miles from the pad. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launcher lifted off from pad 39A at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) Monday with the Inmarsat…

Miss Monday night’s launch from Kennedy Space Center? Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 rocket taking off with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite, a heavyweight spacecraft designed to link airliners, ships and others on-the-go via broadband. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) with the 13,417-pound…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Engineers from SpaceX, Boeing and Inmarsat spent the last few weeks preparing a Falcon 9 rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since the satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral from its Boeing factory in Southern California last month, technicians filled it with 5,372 pounds (2,437 kilograms)…

Engineers from SpaceX, Boeing and Inmarsat spent the last few weeks preparing a Falcon 9 rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since the satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral from its Boeing factory in Southern California last month, technicians filled it with 5,372 pounds (2,437 kilograms)…

Credit: Inmarsat A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrived at launch pad 39A on Florida’s Space Coast on Sunday, a day before liftoff with a powerhouse Inmarsat communications satellite designed to spread broadband beams connecting airline passengers, maritime crews and U.S. and international military units with Internet and data services. The new satellite will join the…

Credit: Inmarsat A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrived at launch pad 39A on Florida’s Space Coast on Sunday, a day before liftoff with a powerhouse Inmarsat communications satellite designed to spread broadband beams connecting airline passengers, maritime crews and U.S. and international military units with Internet and data services. The new satellite will join the…