Third try the charm as SpaceX launches communication satellite after delays

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SpaceX has launched a communication satellite on the third try.
The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Wednesday evening from Florida`s Kennedy Space Center.
It successfully hoisted an Intelsat satellite that was going so high that there wasn`t enough leftover fuel to attempt a booster landing.
So the first stage fell into the Atlantic, as is still the custom for other rocket companies.
Launch attempts on Saturday and Sunday were foiled by last-second technical issues.
SpaceX is on a rocket roll.
This is the private company`s third launch in barely two weeks.
A recycled Falcon carried up a satellite from the NASA-leased pad at Kennedy on June 23, followed by the launch of a new rocket two days later from Southern California.
Wednesday`s rocket also was new.
Vice President Mike Pence will view the empty pad -- Launch Complex 39A, where NASA`s moon rockets and shuttles once soared -- during a space center tour Thursday.