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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX is getting ready for its next launch from Florida’s Space Coast. The company plans to use its Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday evening to deploy more Starlink satellites into orbit. And for the first time ever, the rocket’s booster will aim for landing on a droneship positioned just off the coast of The Bahamas.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 will lift 23 Starlink v2 Mini satellites to low-Earth orbit (LEO) on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC). The Starlink Group 10-12 mission will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida. Falcon 9 will fly on a southeasterly trajectory from the Cape.