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Update: Liftoff! SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 at 7:08 p.m. ET from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a satellite to lunar orbit for South Korea. Read our full post-launch story here.

Watch live above and see real-time updates below as SpaceX targets 7:08p.m. ET Thursday, August4, for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida forSouth Korea's first lunar mission.

After liftoff, the Falcon 9 will fly an easterntrajectory with the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, or KPLO,a satellite designed to orbit the moon with a suite of South Korean experiments and one U.S.-built instrument,according to NASA.

The Falcon 9 first stage willtarget a drone ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean about nine minutes after liftoff.

Best tweets, photos from social: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, South Korea's first lunar mission

Thismarks SpaceX's first launch of August and the company's34thoverall mission of the year. Following this morning's successful sunrise liftoff of aUnited Launch Alliance Atlas V for the U.S. Space Force, it will also be the 34th overall launch to take place from Florida'sSpace Coast this year.

If successful this evening it will bethe quickest turnaround between rocket launches from the Space Coast sinceJames Lovell and Buzz Aldrin's Gemini 12mission lifted off on November 11, 1966, just 90 minutes after the launch of theAgena Target Vehicle.

Should SpaceX be unable to launch this evening there is a backup opportunityavailable about 24 hours later on Friday, August 5 at7:00 p.m. ET.

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