NEW YORK, April 1. /TASS/. The US company SpaceX on Friday launched a Falcon 9 rocket with another cluster of 40 satellites, according to a broadcast on the company’s website.

The liftoff took place at Cape Canaveral in Florida at 12:24 ET (19:24 Moscow time).

The reusable first-stage booster for the rocket successfully descended to a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. It had previously been used six times in similar missions.