SpaceX launched 47 satellites on Thursday morning (March 3) and landed the Falcon 9 rocket.
The Starlink 4-9 mission launched from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:25 a.m. EST, the ninth of SpaceX's 52 planned launches this year and the
TechCrunch noted a solid one-per-week launch rate, which aligns with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's commitment to quick reusability.
The Falcon 9 booster "B1060" launched today's mission and landed nine minutes later aboard the drone ship "Just Read the Instructions" in the Atlantic Ocean.
With this successful launch and landing, B1060 has completed 11 flights since its debut in June 2020, tying it for the most rocket reuses at SpaceX.
View of an antenna of the Starlink satellite internet at the Jhon F. Kennedy school in Sotomo, Los Lagos Region in southern Chile, on August 8, 2021. - South African billionaire Elon Mask's SpaceX company's Starlink started to deliver internet access Friday in Chile, making it the first country in Latin America and the southern hemisphere to have access to this experimental service.
SpaceX Launches 47 Starlink Satellites in All Nines!
According to SpaceX, today's mission focused on a fresh set of 47 new Starlink satellites that will soon join other spacecraft orbiting the Earth.
It will introduce a new expansion to the popular service that connects the world to the internet.
Deployment of 47 Starlink satellites confirmed
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2022
The firm releases a fresh batch that marks a milestone. It is one of the company's early for a single month and one of the fastest, as its last launch was only last weekend.
There is no stopping SpaceX today, as the firm is on a roll with its launches, demonstrating the company's ability to deliver a payload to low-Earth orbit for usage.
Not only has SpaceX hit a significant new milestone, according to its tweet, but it has also launched another set of 47 satellites into orbit.
SpaceX's ninth Falcon 9 launch is the milestone, which will place the Starlink satellites in orbit within the first nine weeks of 2022, making it a perfect nine.
This was our 9th Falcon 9 launch in the first 9 weeks of 2022 pic.twitter.com/yuxVN1rR8t
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2022
The company's successes were commemorated online, and additional satellites for service were dispersed throughout different Starlink coverage areas.
About Starlink
SpaceX's satellite broadband service, Starlink, saw its first infrastructure launch in 2019. Elon Musk, the network's CEO, recently made news when he delivered 50 Starlink terminals to Ukraine, where a Russian incursion has disrupted internet access.
SpaceX's launch on Thursday marked the company's sixth Starlink mission of the year. The launches went off without a hitch, although the third mission, which launched on Feb. 3, was delayed by a solar storm.
According to SpaceX personnel, the sun outburst caused a geomagnetic storm on Earth, which increased the density of our atmosphere enough to bring down up to 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites that had not yet reached their operating height.
There will be many more Starlink debuts in the following weeks and months. The corporation has already launched over 2,000 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Still, it has clearance to launch another 12,000 and has appealed to an international authority for permission to launch up to 30,000 more.
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