The nearly two-hour launch window opens at 11:26 p.m. ET.
Hotbird 13F is bound for geostationary orbit, about 22,300 miles above Earth.
The spacecraft and its twin, Hotbird G, are slated to replace three other Hotbird spacecraft, which currently provide 1,000 television channels to more than 160 million homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East,Friday night's liftoff continues a very busy year for SpaceX. Elon Musk's company has already launched 46 orbital missions in 2022, all of them successful." , a book about the search for alien life.
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