A new batch of devices has joined the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network.
The launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle on Tuesday, November 28, successfully launched into orbit another batch of 23 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network of the Starlink system. About that reported press service of the American company SpaceX.
The rocket was launched from Launch Complex 40 at the US Space Forces base at Cape Canaveral in Florida. About an hour later, the satellites were launched into orbit.
As part of the launch, the first reusable stage of the launch vehicle, used for the 17th time, after separation, made a controlled vertical landing on the Just Read the Instructions offshore drone platform located in the Atlantic.
Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/HTFsESYl6B
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 28, 2023
This is the 126th launch since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project and the 57th since the beginning of this year. SpaceX has already launched more than 5.4 thousand satellites into orbit. Some of them failed or went out of orbit. More than 5.1 thousand devices are in orbit in working condition.
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SpaceX is currently the world’s largest satellite operator. The Starlink Internet network is available to users in 62 countries, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The services of these satellites are also actively used by the American military.
In the future, SpaceX plans to deploy an orbital constellation of 12 thousand spacecraft (and in the future – of 30 thousand) to create a full-scale network that will provide the inhabitants of Earth with broadband Internet access in any corner of planet. .
We remind you that on November 20, SpaceX launched another 22 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. At the end of October, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched another batch of 23 mini-satellites into orbit to replenish the Starlink orbital constellation.
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