SpaceX Lifts 24 Satellites Into Orbit After ‘Most Difficult Launch’

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, June 25, putting 24 experimental satellites into orbit.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying the U.S. Air Force's Space Test Program 2 Mission, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 25, 2019. Joe Skipper/Reuters

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, June 25, putting 24 experimental satellites into orbit after what Elon Musk’s rocket company called one of its “most difficult” launches ever.

The craft lifted off to cheers from onlookers at 2:30 a.m. after a three-hour delay from the original launch time late Monday.