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Starlink satellites for the global Internet were sent into Earth orbit using the reusable Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
On October 18, at 12.25 GMT (15.25 Kiev time), the US company SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites designed to deploy the global Internet. The company has reported this on its website.
The Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, and after completing the mission, its first stage successfully landed in the Atlantic Ocean on the floating platform “Of course, I still love you “.
This Falcon 9 fairing flew and landed for the third time.
After 63 minutes after launch from Earth, the satellites deployed into orbit.
Today’s release marks the fourteenth in the Starlink rollout schedule.
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Видео: Starlink Mission / YouTube
Starlink is a project of SpaceX’s near-Earth satellite system for cheap, high-speed Internet. The FCC has given SpaceX permission to launch 12,000 such satellites, which are built for a large-scale network designed to provide people on Earth with broadband Internet access anywhere in the world.
All of them are supposed to go into orbit after 2020. The total investment in the project is estimated at $ 10 billion.
The last launch took place on October 6; Another 60 satellites were put into orbit.
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