SpaceX launches satellite for Argentina into polar orbit

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Orlando FL (UPI) Aug 31, 2020

SpaceX launched a satellite for Argentina's space agency from Florida on Sunday evening that will monitor weather and agricultural conditions. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the SAOCOM 1B satellite at 7:18 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Clouds that had threatened a delay cleared right before launch time. The Argentine mission was the first polar orbi

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