Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches 60 Starlink internet satellites
- Starlink's internet satellites were launched on SpaceX's reusable rocket Falcon 9
- Upon returning to the Earth, Falcon 9 landed on SpaceX's drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You'
- Starlink is a satellite internet constellation that is being constructed by SpaceX
Entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s SpaceX on Wednesday launched 60 Starlink internet satellites. They were launched on SpaceX’s reusable rocket Falcon 9, which landed at sea on SpaceX’s drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. This was Falcon 9’s sixth successful landing, according to SPACE.com.
The rocket was launched at 4.28 am EDT (0828 GMT) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Center. It returned to Earth about nine minutes later.
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“Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship,” SpaceX tweeted.
It also shared a video of the deployment of the 60 Starlink satellites.
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Starlink is a satellite internet constellation that is being constructed by SpaceX that’ll provide satellite internet access. The space company aims to deploy 1,440 satellites in its initial internet constellation. It has, till now, deployed about 1,300 satellites.
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