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SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast
SpaceX Launch Baffles East Coast What some first thought was a meteor making its way up the East Coast turned out to be Elon Musk's SpaceX. The Falcon 9 rocket sent Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just after 7:30 p.m., according to a news release. Footage of the rocket was captured about 30 minutes later in Washington DC, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. This is what a @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Florida looks like in New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/0JIcjjN3hH — drewsview…

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by David Cifarelli & Cecilia Levine
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Did You See Them? Elon Musk's Internet Satellites Light Skies Over NJ, NY, PA Did You See Them? Elon Musk's Internet Satellites Light Skies Over NJ, NY, PA
Did You See Them? Elon Musk's Internet Satellites Light Skies Over NJ, NY, PA It was around 6:30 Saturday night when 20 or so people enjoying a child's birthday party in Bergen County were stopped cold. "Aliens!" one youngster shouted as those gathered at the Dumont girl's 8th birthday bash watched a line of sparkling lights move through the sky. "You know those planes that tow the ads at the Jersey Shore? They moved through the air like that," one dad said. "Only there wasn't any plane." It wasn't Santa taking a dry run or a little "X Files" intrigue that created the aerial excitement in areas of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The culprit was SpaceX, a gro…

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by Jerry DeMarco