In total, the American company has carried out 90 launches of Internet satellites since May 2019.
The launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle launched another batch of 47 mini-satellites into orbit to replenish the orbital constellation of the Starlink Internet system. About this June 22 reported SpaceX company.
The launch was carried out from the launch pad at the US Space Force Base Vandenberg in California at 00:19 US Pacific Time (10:19 Kyiv time).
About nine minutes after liftoff, the first multi-stage launch vehicle, used for the fourth time, made a controlled vertical landing on an offshore drone platform in the Pacific Ocean.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship pic.twitter.com/iqHOnON7Tz
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 22, 2023
Note that in total, SpaceX has carried out 90 launches of Internet satellites since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project (21 since the beginning of this year). During this period, 4.6 thousand devices were launched into orbit, some of which failed or were lost.
Today more than 4.3 thousand mini-satellites remain in space in order.
Watch the launch of Falcon 9 47 @starlink satellites in orbit → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/xCYtcckT8k
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 22, 2023
It was earlier reported that China has successfully launched an experimental Shiyan-25 satellite into space.
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