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ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX completed the 11th launch from Florida’s Space Coast for the year under clear blue skies on Tuesday afternoon, marking the 300th successful orbital mission for a Falcon 9 rocket. The workhorse for Elon Musk’s company lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:11 p.m. carrying the Merah Putih 2 telecommunications satellite for Telkom Indonesia to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. It marked the 301st flight of a Falcon 9 rocket since its debut in 2010 with all but one making it to orbit. That 2015 flight was a NASA resupply mission tha…