The launch takes place on a milestone date, marking 20 years since the STS-114 space shuttle mission took off from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B. The launch of Discovery on the STS-114 mission on July 26, 2005, marked the return to flight for the space shuttle after the Columbia tragedy investigation.

Amazon’s Project Kuiper may be the underdog against SpaceX’s Starlink today in the satellite broadband race, but a ramped-up launch schedule and tight AWS integration put Kuiper on a clear path to challenge Starlink’s lead,

SpaceX plans to launch 24 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, which may be visible above Southern California.

Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts. Starlink and its founder, Elon Musk, confirmed the outage and said they were investigating the issue.