SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink rockets into orbit, spikes landing

While much of the planet is closed due to coronavirus pandemic, remains the same as always in low Earth orbit, where the nascent SpaceX is born Starlink The broadband constellation now has more than 400 satellites.

A Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:30 p.m. PT Wednesday with the payload on the nose. Although the mission is called Starlink 6, it is the seventh group of 60 routers in orbit to be sent into space.

SpaceX aims to have more than 1,000 of its controversial satellites in orbit by the end of the year and has permission from the Federal Communications Commission to launch more than 12,000 in total.

Within minutes of launch, with the second stage booster and the batch of satellites directed toward a deployment point in low Earth orbit, the first stage booster returned to Earth for a successful landing right in the center of the drone . Course I still love you in the Atlantic Ocean.

A pair of ships equipped with giant nets will attempt to catch the two halves of the nose cone or fairing.

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket was launched three times before Wednesday, most recently for Starlink’s fourth mission. The nose cone is also recycled from a previous mission.

You can see the entire mission through the YouTube insert below. The next Starlink release is tentatively set for sometime in May.