SpaceX announced that the Falcon 9 rocket launch carrying satellites took place from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, at 2:47 AM on November 22, US time.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, USA, on February 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP/TTXVN).
On November 22, the American space exploration company SpaceX successfully placed an additional 23 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit.
SpaceX reported that the Falcon 9 rocket launch occurred at 2:47 AM on November 22, US time (which corresponds to the afternoon of the same day in Vietnam).
The first stage of the Falcon 9 successfully returned and landed on the unmanned ship named “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly thereafter, SpaceX confirmed the deployment of the aforementioned 23 satellites.
According to SpaceX, Starlink aims to provide high-speed broadband Internet to locations with weak access, high costs, or no connectivity at all.
Founded by billionaire Elon Musk in 2002, SpaceX has developed and operated the Starlink Internet satellite constellation.
The company began launching Starlink satellites in 2019. Since then, over 5,000 satellites have been placed into low Earth orbit, of which approximately 4,500 are currently operational.
