SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket launched the corporate’s 2 hundredth Starlink mission to low Earth orbit on Wednesday, the corporate mentioned in a publish on social media platform X.
What Occurred: Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites into area from Florida on Wednesday night, marking the corporate’s 2 hundredth Starlink mission.
Starlink, a phase of SpaceX, gives low-latency connectivity to over 4 million individuals across the globe with the assistance of a community of satellites in orbit. Early in September, the corporate mentioned that it had launched over 7,000 Starlink satellites into area.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk congratulated the SpaceX workforce for the profitable flight.
In accordance with knowledge from astronomer Jonathan McDowell, SpaceX has launched 7,213 Starlink satellites so far, of which over 6,500 are working.
What Occurred: SpaceX is trying ahead to permits from the Federal Communication Fee (FCC) to deploy satellites nearer to Earth at decrease altitudes.
“The following era Starlink satellites, that are so large that solely Starship can launch them, will enable for a 10X improve in bandwidth and, with the decreased altitude, sooner latency,” Musk wrote on social media platform X earlier this month.
SpaceX is at the moment launching its Starlink satellites on its Falcon rocket. The Starship launch automobile, in the meantime, is within the testing and growth part and is but to hold any payload to area.
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