See photos: SpaceX launches Commercial GTO 1 mission from Cape Canaveral early Sunday

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Commercial GTO 1 mission at 1:04 a.m. Sunday, July 13 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Known as Dror-1, the payload was a geostationary communications satellite for Israel. No further details were released.

The Falcon 9 booster saw its 13th launch and landing. Previous missions include seven Starlink missions, NASA's Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, and IM-2.

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Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her [email protected] on X:@brookeofstars.

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