SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Hours After Blue Origin Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral

Just hours after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a fireball at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from the same military base, and a United Launch Alliance Atlas V is scheduled to follow Friday evening.

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Hours After Blue Origin Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral. Just hours after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a fireball at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from the same military base, and a United Launch Alliance Atlas V is scheduled to follow Friday evening. The SpaceX mission lifted off at 8:57 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40, carrying 29 Starlink satellites. The first-stage booster flew for the 16th time and landed on the droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" in the Atlantic. ULA's Atlas V is targeting a 7:33 p.m. launch from Launch Complex 41 for the Amazon Leo 7 mission. The two launch complexes sit more than six miles north of Blue Origin's Launch Complex 36, where New Glenn's first stage was destroyed during a static fire test at 9 p.m. Thursday. The rocket hardware was engulfed in a ma...