SpaceX Launches 22 Starlink Satellites from the West Coast into Orbit

SpaceX Launches 22 Starlink Satellites from the West Coast into Orbit

On Friday night, SpaceX sent 22 Starlink satellites into orbit.

At at 4:34 p.m. PST, the Elon Musk-owned spacecraft contractor televised the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on X.

At 4:42 p.m., the Falcon 9 first stage booster touched down on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which was positioned in the Pacific Ocean, following a brief flight that saw it detach barely two minutes after launch. At 4:43 p.m., the satellites entered low-Earth orbit.

With the addition of 22 Starlink satellites, SpaceX now has a constellation of over 5,000 orbitals that can deliver high-speed, low-latency Internet to any part of the world.

After seven earlier Starlink flights, this was the Falcon 9’s fourteenth flight.

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