If you didn't, scroll down for what you missed. I'm also sharing a little text message exchange between the FLORIDA TODAY staff just around 6 a.m.
"That was unbelievable. I feel bad for the people that didn't get up," wrote Photographer Malcolm Denemark.
"I know!," answered Space Reporter Brooke Edwards. "I did NOT expect that. I was about to go in when the almost jelly from the booster began."
"Please tell me you guys were still paying attention when that happened ...," Photographer Craig Bailey responded.
Here's what they were talking about (for the full gallery, click here)
Launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink 8-9 mission, carrying a load of Starlink satellites. The rocket launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:55 a.m. EDT on Wednesday July 3rd. Launch viewed from the Banana River.
Exhaust from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lights up the pre-dawn sky after liftoff from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday, July 3, 2024 carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites.Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday, July 3, 2024 carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites.Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK
After the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink 8-9 mission, the contrail hung in the sky like a ghost next to the waning Strawberry moon and Jupiter.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday, July 3, 2024 carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites.Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK
Launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink 8-9 mission, launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:55 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 3rd. Launch viewed from the Banana River.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday, July 3, 2024 carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites.Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK
SpaceX has started offering some users a new Starlink kit that's small enough to fit in a backpack, so users can take it wherever they want to and get access to the company's satellite internet service.
Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay Capital II, at a hard cap of $220 million. The VC wasn’t well known in Europe until it started to lead rounds in enterprise startups a couple of years ago, notably scanning software startup Scandit -- which has raised $273M to date -- out of Zurich.
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