Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit from California on Tuesday after a scrubbed launch in Florida.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink broadband satellites into orbit from California on Tuesday, after another mission in Florida was scrubbed. Elon Musk's private spaceflight company successfully deployed 20 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:40 p.m., it said.
The 20 satellites put into low earth orbit on Tuesday join more than 6,000 in Starlink's constellation, which provides internet access to over 75 countries. As of May 2024, Starlink boasts more than 3 million subscribers to its high-speed internet services. With Tuesday's launch, SpaceX has now completed 356 launches, 319 landings and 290 relights – a historic achievement as the first private company to develop a reusable two-stage rocket.
The three companies are the first to be selected under the Pentagon's lucrative National Security Space Launch Phase 3 procurement program, a multibillion-dollar competition among U.S. rocket companies vying to launch some of the country's most sensitive military and intelligence satellites into space for roughly the next decade.
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