SpaceX pressed ahead with the launch of another Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, this one carrying 21 next-generation Starlink internet satellites.
a four-man crew to the International Space Station, SpaceX pressed ahead with the launch of another Falcon 9 rocket Monday, this one carrying 21 next-generation Starlink internet satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thunders away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying 21 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. The California rocket builder has now launched more than 4,000 broadband relay stations with thousands more to come.Streaking away to the southeast a few minutes before sunset, the first stage boosted the vehicle out of the dense lower atmosphere in spectacular fashion before falling away and heading for landing on an offshore droneship.
Including Monday's launch, SpaceX has now launched 4,002 Starlinks,"and is providing high-speed internet to more than one million locations around the world, the majority of which are households," the company said in an online overview. The Version 2, or V2, satellites launched on Falcon 9"are a bit smaller, so we affectionately refer to them as 'V2 Mini' satellites," SpaceX said."But don't let the name fool you, a V2 Mini satellite has four times the capacity for serving users compared to its earlier counterparts."
The satellites can automatically change course to avoid potential close encounters with other spacecraft or debris and the company publishes detailed tracking data to give governments and other satellite operators detailed situational awareness.
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