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SpaceX launches new batch of Starlink satellites

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22 devices replenished the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network, numbering 4.5 thousand satellites.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched another batch of 22 mini-satellites of the Starlink system into orbit. It was announced on August 17 by the developer company SpaceX.

The launch was carried out from the launch complex at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday at 23:36 US East Coast time (Thursday at 06:36 Kyiv time).

The first reusable stage of the launch vehicle, used for the thirteenth time, then made a controlled vertical landing on an offshore drone platform in the Atlantic.

Note that in total, SpaceX has launched 101 Internet satellite launches since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project (32 since the beginning of this year). During this time, more than 4.9 thousand devices were launched into orbit, some of which failed or were lost.

Today about 4.5 thousand mini-satellites remain in space in order.

SpaceX launched the 6.7 ton satellite into orbit

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