October 8, 2022 / 8:46 PM EDT / CBS News Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturday evening in the company's third Falcon 9 launch in as many days. It followed two flights Wednesday, one from each coast, that were just seven hours apart. Using a first stage making its 14th flight — the most yet for a non-SpaceX commercial customer — the latest Falcon 9 blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT and climbed away on a due-east trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean. After dropping off the well-used first stage for recovery on a SpaceX landing barge, the rocket's upper stage propelled the two-satellite payload out of the discernible atmosphere, and released them into elliptical "transfer" orbits, as planned, about 40 minutes after launch. A remarkable view of the Falcon 9 heading toward space as seen by a camera on board a SpaceX droneship stationed several hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. All rocket exhaust plumes expand in the low-pressure environment of the extreme upper atmosphere, but the effect is especially striking at sunrise or sunset. The rocket's first stage, making its record-tying 14th flight, landed successfully about nine minutes after liftoff. SpaceX Spectacular video from the SpaceX droneship — awaiting the first stage several hundred miles down range in the Atlantic Ocean — showed the rocket's second stage exhaust plume dramatically expanding in the low-pressure upper atmosphere, an eye-catching effect best seen when backlit at dawn or sunset. Area residents, tourists and photographers, amateur and professional alike, tweeted equally spectacular views of the rocket, silhouetted in front of the rising full moon as it raced toward orbit. "Captured Falcon 9 with Intelsat Galaxy 33 & 34 transiting the full Hunter's Moon tonight from the waters of Florida's Indian River," tweeted photographer Trevor Mahlmann." Captured Falcon 9 with Intelsat Galaxy 33 & 34 transiting the full Hunter’s Moon tonight from the waters of Florida’s Indian River🌕🚀 pic.twitter.com/D5FeKMS26N