SpaceX plans to launch the latest batch if its Starlink satellites now no earlier than 8:29 a.m. Aug. 14 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX states it has until 10:47 a.m. if needed. Upon lift off, the Falcon 9 rocket will travel on a northeast trajectory.

In the near-term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The company has 13 more Atlas Vs in its inventory, most of them sold to Amazon and Boeing to launch Kuiper Internet satellites and Starliner crew missions to the International Space Station.

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