SpaceX said it would be the 17th flight of the Falcon 9 first-stage booster supporting this mission. The booster has previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024. This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.

In the first hour of Sunday morning, SpaceX plans to reattempt the launch of the four satellites for Astranis Space Technologies. SpaceX has confirm ed they are targeting midnight to reattempt this launch,