1 of three | The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a payload of 23 Starlink satellites at 1:19 p.m. Saturday from Cape Canaveral House Power Station’s Pad 40 in Florida. Picture by Joe Marino/UPI | License Picture

Could 24 (UPI) — SpaceX on Saturday afternoon launched 23 extra Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Florida earlier than a thunderstorm struck the realm.

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral House Power Station Pad 40 at 1:19 p.m. The primary-stage booster landed about eight minutes in a while the personal firm’s drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” within the Atlantic Ocean. It was the booster’s twenty fourth mission, together with 18 Starlink missions and a business resupply providers flight to the Worldwide House Station.

SpaceX has accomplished 451 booster landings since Dec. 2015 from Florida and California.

It was the forty fourth Starlink launch of the yr from Florida at Cape Canaveral or Kennedy House Middle, Florida As we speak reported.

At 11:55 a.m., the temperature was 89 levels with a warmth index of 100, in accordance with the Nationwide Climate Service in Melbourne.

After liftoff, a extreme thunderstorm warning was issued for the realm till 4:30 p.m. There have been scattered to extreme storms throughout east central Florida with hail, damaging winds and lightning, in accordance with House Coast Every day.

On Friday, SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg House Power Base in California.

From the Kennedy House Middle on June 8, SpaceX is planning to launch the fourth personal astronaut mission to the Worldwide House Station. Liftoff for the Falcon 9 is scheduled for 9:11 a.m. from Pad 39A. The 4 astronauts plan to spend 14 days on the ISS.