A US Space Force rocket launched a missile-detecting satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 4.

The first of two rocket launches set for today at Cape Canaveral, Florida, took off at 6:29 this morning. This video shows the 194-foot Atlas V rocket carrying a Space Force ballistic missile warning satellite into orbit just before sunrise. The video was recorded 170 miles to the south where the clouds had just begun to clear after a rainstorm in Delray Beach, Florida. The clouds give a real sense of the rocket's enormous speed.

Today's second launch is set to occur at At 7:08 p.m. as SpaceX sends the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter mission skyward on a Falcon 9 rocket. The South Korean mission is sending an orbiter to the moon to study magnetic anomalies and find landing sites for future missions.