Eyewitness Footage Captures SpaceX Launch in Florida

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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink satellites launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday morning, May 18.

SpaceX said the satellites will be positioned into low-Earth orbit.

This video, posted to Instagram by Luis Antonio Dominguez, shows the rocket launch as seen from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center.

The first stage of the rocket landed on a droneship, SpaceX said. Credit: Luis Antonio Dominguez via Storyful

Video Transcript

- (SHOUTING) Whoo-woo!

- Wait for the sound. That's the best part.

- Yeah, right?

- And, there we go. It's funny--

[LOUD RUMBLING]

- --how much of a delay there is.

- Yeah.

- The other one launched this morning, Starlink.

- Space trash.

- This is the seventh launch in--

- Space trash.

[LAUGHTER]

- Only about 30% of them, right? That's about the attrition rate.

[LOUD RUMBLING]

- See the windows shaking?

- And, it's gone.

- It's like-- it was only like fifteen seconds, period.

- That's not bad.