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is a new variant of the H3 launch vehicle. It has three more powerful LE9 engines in the core stage and no solid rocket boosters. The H3 variant has increased the payload to orbit by 50 percent and that at a lower cost. One of the mission's payload was the STARS X mission to demonstrate orbital debris capture using a space tether. Additionally the launch carried a vast simulator and five other small satellites. This flight Friday June 12 at 0637 Mountain Daylight Time. SpaceX launched the Starling Group N54 on a Falcon 9 from Slick 40 Cape Canaveral. The repeater there.