At the kennedy space center in Florida, has a space SpaceX on Saturday and 58 satellites for breedbandinternetwerk Starlink, and the three earth observation satellites have been launched.
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Barely nine days after a Falcon 9 launcher from SpaceX on a platform, the LC-40 and it was gone, he rose on Saturday at 11.21 pm (Belgian time) and a new one on. That is a short period of time between the two launches on the same platform, a new all-time high, reports the newspaper Florida Today.
About 35 minutes after the start were 58 new satellites for Starlink at the same time, is free and is preceded by three in each of 110 kilograms of weight, SkySats satellites for the aardobservatiebedrijf Planet Labs.
To Starlink have been in place since may of 2019 at the latest, through nine launches with the Falcon-9 was already in 538, of each a quarter of a ton of weight, man-made satellites in the area.
A thousand satellites
On the night of the 22nd to 23rd of June at the famous launch pad 39A, again, a Unique to Starlink to leave. A week later, LC-40 is once again on the move, this time to the gps satellites in the sky to bring.
SpaceX wants to be in the course of a year, about a thousand Starlink-satellites to launch in the next few years, thousands of them. Starlink is primarily intended for regions without high-speed internet access.
SpaceX was able to restart in the first stage of the booster to be recovered. The staircase landing on a droneship in the Atlantic.
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