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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched even more Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on Thursday morning.
The Falcon 9 reinforcement rocket took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 3:13 am.
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“Take off!” the company wrote on Twitter with a video showing the seconds after launch.
Less than nine minutes later, the rocket’s 15-story, reusable first stage booster landed back on the floating “Just Read the Instructions” drone ship.
The platform is about 400 miles downstream in the Atlantic Ocean.
This takeoff was the company’s seventh mission of the year and the 21st launch of 60 Starlink satellites. It was also the 110th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket and the 76th Booster SpaceX landing so far.
The launch was initially scheduled for March 9, but the date has been postponed so SpaceX could conduct more pre-launch tests, according to Space.com.
Almost an hour after the launch of Falcon 9, Starlink satellites were deployed.
SpaceX has already launched more than 1,200 Starlink satellites – some of which are no longer operational – forming the largest constellation of artificial satellites.
Earlier this year, SpaceX opened access to satellites to members of the public in a current or planned service area using an early booking system.
The company plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites to increase coverage, network capacity and speed.
In a February 22 tweet, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the constellation will provide active coverage for most of the Earth by 2021 and complete global coverage by 2022.
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Another Starlink mission could be launched later this weekend, and SpaceX has at least two more missions scheduled before the end of the month, according to Spaceflight Now.