CAPE CANAVERAL — “It’s a comet,” one man exclaimed in a video he sent to Action News Jax early Thursday. Multiple callers to the station asked, “What’s that light in the sky?” Some said, “It’s a UFO!”
It was neither. It was SpaceX Falcon 9 on its 36th mission launching from Cape Canaveral Space Station at 5:25 a.m. Minutes after liftoff, views of the exhaust gases were visible across the skies over the Southeast U.S.
Known as Starlink, the mission is set to deploy 29 satellites into orbit.
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