The launch of succeeded spacex puts 52 StarLink satellites more in orbit

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Spacex led a successful rocket launch on Saturday that put 52 new Starlink satellites in orbit with a pair of useful loads on the shortcut. Spacex launched its Falcon 9 rocket of Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 18:56 EDT. The Falcon 9 rocket used for launch flew to its eighth time and has successfully landed on a sea drone ship to be renovated and reused again in the future.

One of the interesting things about this falcon is that it was the same rocket to put the astronauts NASA Doug Hurley and Bob Bewnken on the ISS last year. Spacex has no intention of slowing its launch of StarLink satellites because the company aims to have 40,000 orbit satellites transmitting high-speed Internet connectivity to the ground.

Build such a massive constellation of satellites will not happen quickly. SPACEX currently has a deadline in the middle of the MID-2027. Currently, StarLink Internet Internet is in beta and has about 10,000 customers. Spacex warned these clients of taste as a beta service, their connectivity speeds could slow down and the service could go down.

The successful launch marked the 15th launch of StarLink of 2021. About nine minutes after take-off, the first step of the Falcon 9 rocket is returned to ground, landing on a spacex drone ship in the ocean called “of course. You always love you. “

In the end, StarLink Internet Service will be available worldwide and Spacex is in discussion with officials in England on the use of Starlink for the country’s rural areas under the British “Gigabit project”. Currently, most StarLink beta customers are in northern United States.