2024-03-13 12:36:15
On Friday Moscow time, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched another batch of 22 mini-satellites into orbit to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network of the Starlink system.
As Day.Az reports with reference to Interfax, the development company SpaceX announced this.
The rocket was launched from the SLC-4E launch pad at the US Vandenberg Space Force base in California on Thursday at 13:34 US Pacific time (Friday at 00:34 Moscow time).
Since May 2019, SpaceX has launched over 5.8 thousand such satellites as part of the Starlink project. Some of them failed or left orbit. More than 5.5 thousand devices are in orbit in working condition.
As part of the launch, the first reusable stage of the launch vehicle, which was used for the second time, after separation, made a controlled vertical landing on the offshore drone platform Of Course I Still Love You, which was located in the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX is the largest satellite operator in the world. The Starlink Internet network is available to users in 70 countries, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. According to the Pentagon, the services of these satellites are also actively used by the American military.
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