The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center lofting a massive Intelsat satellite into orbit July 5, 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The two stage rocket carried the Boeing-built Intelsat 35e communications satellite toward into geostationary orbit 22,000 miles over the equator the heaviest payload SpaceX has ever launched into high orbit.

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center lofting a massive Intelsat satellite into orbit July 5, 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The two stage rocket carried the Boeing-built Intelsat 35e communications satellite toward into geostationary orbit 22,000 miles over the equator the heaviest payload SpaceX has ever launched into high orbit.

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Size: 2000px × 3000px
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Photo credit: © SpaceX / Alamy / Afripics
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