SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches GPS III SV-08 For U.S. Space Force

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the US Space Force GPS III-7 satellite to medium-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1737 UTC. The rocket's First stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after launch. The upper stage deployed GPS III SV-08 to orbit, about an hour and a half after launch.