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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched even more Starlink Internet satellites into orbit early Thursday morning.
The Falcon 9 booster rocket took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 03:13 ET.
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“Rise!” wrote the company on Twitter with a video showing the seconds after launch.
Less than nine minutes later, the rocket’s reusable first-floor 15-story booster hit the floating “Read the Instructions” drone again.
The platform is about 400 kilometers lower in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the seventh mission of the year and the 21st Starlink launch with 60 satellites. It was also the 110th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket and the 76th SpaceX booster to land so far.
The launch was initially scheduled for March 9, but the date was pushed back so that SpaceX could do more forward tests, according to Space.com.
Nearly an hour after the launch of the Falcon 9, the Starlink satellites were deployed.
SpaceX has now launched more than 1200 Starlink satellites – some of which are no longer in operation – which is the largest constellation of artificial satellites.
Earlier this year, SpaceX opened access to the satellites for members of the public in a current or planned service area with a pre-order booking system.
The company plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites to expand coverage, network capacity and speed.
In a tweet of 22 FebruarySpaceX founder Elon Musk said the constellation will provide active coverage to most of the earth by 2021 and complete global coverage by 2022.
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Another Starlink mission could be launched this morning, and according to Spaceflight Now, SpaceX has planned at least two more missions before the end of the month.