What was that light in the sky on Tuesday evening? It was a rocket launch in Florida. SpaceX launched two high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 6:13 p.

SpaceX is aiming for liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday morning. The vehicle will send 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, into low-Earth orbit. The satellites are used to increase the company’s internet capability to locations around the globe.

SpaceX is targeting a Tuesday afternoon launch from Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 launch Falcon 9 launch of the Maxar 3 mission is slated to take off at 6:13 p.m. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.