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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
National
Marco Santana

SpaceX launch date moved to Monday

ORLANDO, Fla. _ SpaceX's launches continue to ramp up, with Elon Musk's space company planning to send a satellite into space next week.

The mission to launch a satellite for a Luxembourg-based company is planned for no earlier than Monday. A one-hour window opens at 7:35 p.m. Eastern time.

Previously, it had been hoped that the satellite would take off Saturday.

The satellite would be launched on SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

The Intelsat heading into space would offer broadband, video and mobile communications for eastern North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Africa.

The industry website Spaceflight Now reported last year that Intelsat has decided to take a wait-and-see approach on using reused rockets for launches.

If the company succeeds, it would mark the third successful launch in less than two weeks.

On Friday, the company successfully launched a Bulgarian satellite into space from Florida. The booster of that rocket landed on "Of Course I Still Love You," a SpaceX-owned barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

On Sunday, SpaceX repeated that feat in California after it launched 10 satellites into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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