SpaceX plans to launch a new group of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit


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Front News Georgia
US company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday, Spaceflight Now reported.
The launch of a heavy launch vehicle Falcon 9 with minisatellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system is supposed to be carried out at 00:05 the US East Coast time from the 40th launch site at the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome (Florida).
This will be the 25th launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project. The SpaceX orbital group already consists of 1,443 spacecraft. The previous batch of 60 Starlink satellites was launched on April 7th.
The company is currently the largest satellite operator in the world.
In the future, SpaceX plans to deploy an orbital constellation of 12,000 spacecraft of this type (and subsequently 30,000) to create a full-scale network that will provide the inhabitants of the Earth with broadband Internet access anywhere in the world. The total investment in the project is estimated at $ 10 billion.
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