Weather permitting, SpaceX Falcon 9 may be visible in the night sky beyond Cape Canaveral, Florida, after liftoff

Nighttime launches can offer unique photo opportunities as the rocket illuminates the dark sky.

Launch coverage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 mission starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.

Who's up for a very late-night rocket launch? A , is scheduled to lift off this week — in the wee hours of the night.

SpaceX plans to send a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Rockets here launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Merritt Island, Florida, or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and people in and around Brevard County usually have the best chance at seeing this phenomenon in the sky.

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