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After a waning-second scrub the previous day, SpaceX successfully launched a pair of SES O3b mPOWER satellites into medium-Earth orbit on Tuesday, July 22, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 5:12 p.m. After soaring skyward due east, the rocket's first-stage booster landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron had only predicted a paltry 20% chance of "go for launch" weather, citing cumulus clouds, lightning and surface electric fields.
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