SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites and landed the returning rocket at sea early Thursday morning.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 56 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday.
The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff, touching down on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
On March 30, SpaceX also launched the same number of satellites of the same model into space.
Starlink group of satellites is dedicated to covering the entire globe with the fast Internet; due to the large deployment of number of satellites in Earth’s orbit, where the weight of each satellite does not exceed 500 kilograms.
Source: Qatar News Agency