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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX may not have had a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it did manage its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance, which is targeting the moon, was set to lift off with its first launch of the year about nine hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites carved up the dying blue skies at sunset with a 5:35 p.m. Eastern liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. The first-stage booster made its 16th flight, having previously flown on two crewed and two c…