SpaceX er pålitelige - 60 satellitter i en pang - Curt Lewis

SpaceX successfully launches 60 more satellites for its Starlink satellite internet constellation SpaceX  has launched yet another batch of 60 Starlink satellites - its third production batch of the orbital communication spacecraft, and its second batch this year alone. The launch took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning at 9:06 AM EST, using a Falcon 9 rocket whose booster stage had already flown for two prior SpaceX missions in 2019. SpaceX also recovered the Falcon 9 booster yet again, landing it back on its drone landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean after it separated from the payload and the rocket's second stage. At this point, SpaceX's ability to recover its Falcon 9 boosters is pretty reliable - it has succeeded in 48 of 56 landing attempts overall, and the last time a Falcon 9 landing attempt went awry was in December of 2018. The deployment of the Starlink satellites seems to have gone exactly to plan, which means SpaceX now has around 240 satellites in service for Starlink. Already after the last batch went up in early January, SpaceX became the largest private satellite operator in the world, and now it's just extending its lead.