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28 launch of 60 Starlink satellites due to thick clouds over its Florida launch site.

— SpaceX will launch its next big batch of Starlink satellites into orbit for the company's growing megaconstellation today (Sept. 28), and you can watch the action live online. .

The Hawthorne, California-based company will loft 60 Starlink internet satellites on its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's historic Pad 39A here at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:22 a.m.

You can watch the launch live here and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.

Related: SpaceX's Starlink satellite megaconstellation launches in photos .

Today’s flight, referred to as Starlink 12 by SpaceX, is actually the 13th big batch of satellites the company has shot into space.

However, the company has been systematically de-orbiting its initial batch of 60 satellites that were launched in May 2019.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has said that the company needs to launch between 500 and 800 satellites in order to begin rolling out service. .

To date, SpaceX has launched more than 700 of the internet-beaming satellites into orbit, in an effort to fill out its planned initial constellation of 1,440 spacecraft.

The Starlink broadband internet is in a private beta-testing phase now, but it will be available for the public to start beta-testing later this year, SpaceX representatives have said.

Related: SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket in dazzling nighttime liftoff.

Flying previously flown boosters has become commonplace for SpaceX, as the company continues to prove the Falcon 9's reliability.

SpaceX is both the launch provider as well as the customer for its Starlink missions, and as such has kept up a rapid launch pace this summer, relying heavily on its fleet of flight-proven boosters. .

In fact, this mission marks the 17th flight of 2020 for SpaceX, with Falcon 9 earning the title of most-flown American rocket earlier this year — a superlative it snagged from a chief competitor, United Launch Alliance's Atlas V. .

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