SpaceX has launched a new batch of 22 Starlink internet satellites.
This is reported on the company’s website social networks HAccording to Ukrinform.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle, along with the next batch of Starlink, launched from Vandenberg Space Force base in California on Thursday at 1:34 PM PST (11:34 PM Kiev time).
Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth as planned, approximately 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It made a vertical landing on the Of Course I Still Love You drone platform in the Pacific Ocean.
Later company approved Placing Internet satellites into low Earth orbit.
As Ukrinform reported, SpaceX sent the Odysseus landing module, built by private American company Intuitive Machines, to the moon on Thursday, February 15.
On the same day, SpaceX launched several satellites for the US Space Force as part of the secretive USSF-124 mission.