Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully launched 53 new Internet communications satellites into space on Sunday as part of the large-scale Starlink project.
The company announced this at its official press conference. Twitter pagesUkrinform reports.
“The launch of 53 Starlink satellites has been confirmed – this is SpaceX’s sixth mission to be completed in a month!” – reads the message.
The launch of the carrier rocket took place on Sunday, July 24. The launch took place from site 39A of NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
It took a little over 15 minutes for the Internet communications satellites to begin leaving the carrier and to orbit at an altitude of about 340 km. At the same time, the reusable first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a self-propelled platform in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX has released this piece of video separately. Messages.
It was noted that the final launch of a rocket ship with Starlink satellites from the US East Coast took place last Sunday, July 17, from Cape Canaveral Spaceport. The company has so far sent nearly 2,900 Internet communications satellites into space. The plan is to orbit 12,000 such satellites and increase that number to 30,000 communication devices after agreement with the international regulator.