SpaceX Starlink Constellation Crosses 1,300 Satellites

SpaceX's latest batch of Starlink satellites ride to orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 24, 2021. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space
SpaceX's latest batch of Starlink satellites ride to orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 24, 2021. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL. - This morning, March 24, 2021, SpaceX once again lit the pre-dawn skies launching the next installment of Starlink satellites into orbit. Liftoff came at 4:28 AM EDT from LC-40. Shortly after launch, the first stage booster B1060.6 made a successful landing on the recovery ship "Of Course I Still Love You". 

 With this launch, it brings the number of Starlink satellites placed into orbit to over 1300. Starlink is a high speed internet system designed to bring internet services to areas of the world with little, non-reliable or non existent service. 


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