Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the Astra 1P television satellite for Luxembourg-based SES. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 5:35 p.m. EDT (2135 UTC) on Thursday, June 20. The rocket’s first-stage booster making its ninth flight will land on SpaceX’s drone ship ‘Just Read the Instructions’, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, about eight and a half minutes after leaving the launch pad.

The rocket will take an easterly trajectory after lifting off from Florida’s space coast.

Read our launch preview story: https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/06/17/live-coverage-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-sess-astra-1p-television-satellite-from-cape-canaveral/

Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith, starting approximately an hour prior to liftoff.

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