SpaceX was set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon, but has retargeted efforts to Saturday. A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 Starlink satellites is now aiming for liftoff at 1:23 p.

Five hundred years after the Spanish explorers, billionaires' dreams of new riches and discovery launched from near Canaveral National Seashore echo countless other times in the past 50 years this "place of canes" faced seemingly inevitable onslaughts from ever-closer building cranes and bulldozers.