Oct. 19 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts Sunday, sending a total of 56 satellites into low-Earth orbit, adding to the growing Starlink commercial fleet.
The first launch occurred at 1:39 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral.
Space Force Station and the second lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 12:24 p.m. PDT.
The first launch marked a record 31st time that the first stage fuel booster rocket was employed to power a Falcon 9 liftoff.
About eight minutes after liftoff, it returned to the droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
