Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Sunday, Oct. 19, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-17 mission, which featured a first-stage booster's ...

Kicking off St. Patrick's Day, SpaceX crews launched a Falcon 9 rocket a couple of hours after sunrise amid cloudy skies and chilling northwesterly winds from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.