SpaceX had to wait a day, but on Thursday night managed the second launch this year of a communications satellite for the Spanish military.

A Falcon 9 on the SpainSat NG II mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 9:30 p.m. A planned Wednesday attempt was called off for reasons SpaceX did not announce.

The first-stage booster for the mission made its 22nd flight, but did not have a return landing as it needed more power to send the satellite to its geosynchronous transfer orbit.

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/tplF9xV3wU

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The booster has previously flown the NASA CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, SES O3b mPOWER-C, Ovzon-3, Eutelsat 26D, Turksat 6A, Maxar 2, SXM-9 and 12 Starlink missions.

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