The Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and was seen traveling eastward across the skies of Eastern Carolina early Saturday morning, with viewers sending in pictures from several counties.

NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. - SpaceX is set to launch its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch

This Falcon 9 started off with a coat of bright white paint. It now shows the soot markings from 17 trips to space. Credit: SpaceX

Bumper is just key to the DNA of the Cape. Not just for beginning this sequence of launches that’s gone into 75 years, but for that spirit of exploration,” said Jamie Draper, director of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum.

See a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing separate and expose a batch of Starlink satellites to the vacuum of space. Cameras aboard both halves of the fairing captured the footage. Credit: Space.com | footage cou