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It will have been two days, three hours and eight minutes since the Space Coast last saw a rocket launch as SpaceX looks to knock out what would be the 100th orbital liftoff of the year on Thursday night.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 is targeting a 10:20 p.m. liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on the Starlink 6-78 mission carrying 29 satellites during a launch window that runs from 10:01 p.m. to 2:01 a.m. Friday.

Mission No. 99 came Tuesday evening from neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a better than 95% chance for good launch conditions.

This marks the 23rd flight of the first-stage booster, which will aim for a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read th

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