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SpaceX's stock wasn't the company's only launch today — It also put 29 Starlink satellites in orbit


Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket occurred at 8:27 a.m. ET, just over an hour before SpaceX went public on the NASDAQ stock market.

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