SpaceX carries out first commercial launch

SpaceX carried out its first commercial launch on Thursday with its Falcon Heavy rocket tasked with placing a Saudi satellite in orbit. The bright white rocket rose with a mighty roar and spewed thick gray smoke on the ground as it made its way up into clear blue skies over Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket exerts 5.1 million pounds of thrust -- that of more than a dozen jetliners, SpaceX said.

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