SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket launched the corporate’s 2 hundredth Starlink mission to low Earth orbit on Wednesday, the corporate mentioned in a submit on social media platform X.
What Occurred: Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites into house from Florida on Wednesday night, marking the corporate’s 2 hundredth Starlink mission.
Starlink, a section of SpaceX, supplies low-latency connectivity to over 4 million folks 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 house.
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 to this point, of which over 6,500 are working.
What Occurred: SpaceX is wanting 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 massive that solely Starship can launch them, will enable for a 10X enhance in bandwidth and, with the diminished altitude, quicker 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 car, in the meantime, is within the testing and growth section and is but to hold any payload to house.
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