A new batch of devices has joined the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network.
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The launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle launched another batch of 22 mini-satellites into orbit to replenish the Starlink orbital constellation. About it on September 24 reported SpaceX company.
It was learned that the launch was carried out from the launch complex at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday at 23:38 US East Coast time (06:38 Sunday Kiev time).
About an hour after the rocket launch, the satellites entered orbit.
The first stage of the reusable launch vehicle, used for the seventeenth time, after separation, made a controlled vertical landing on an offshore drone platform in the Atlantic.
Falcon 9 first stage lands on Just Read the Instructions droneship, the second booster in our fleet with 17 launches and landings pic.twitter.com/b6USZIjwx7
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 24, 2023
In total, SpaceX has carried out 110 launches of Internet satellites since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project (41 since the beginning of this year). During this time, more than 5.1 thousand devices were launched into orbit, some of which failed or were lost.
Today about 4.8 thousand mini-satellites remain in space in working order.
On Monday, SpaceX plans to launch another batch of Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle is scheduled to launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Falcon 9 liftoff! pic.twitter.com/uXoIcobVKD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 24, 2023
Let’s recall that in July, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the heaviest commercial satellite, Jupiter 3, into orbit.
In the United States, an Alpha rocket launched a military satellite into orbit
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