According to a report from Space.com, another 20 Starlink satellites were launched successfully by SpaceX on July 11, of which 13 are equipped with direct-to-cell abilities.
The mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California that occurred at 10:35 pm EDT (7:35 pm local California time; 0235 GMT on July 12) is trending on Google as people seem interested in knowing about it. The delay was just for a day without any reason given.
Following takeoff, approximately eight minutes later the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed back on Earth and touched down on SpaceX drone ship named Of Course I Still Love You situated in the Pacific Ocean.
This fall has been made over by nineteen flights and landings performed by this same booster and now it is only three launches shy of reaching another Falcon 9 that was done by another Falcon-9 first-stage in late June capable of achieving a maximum number of twenty-two such flights.
After separating from the first stage, the upper stage of the Falcon 9 vehicle then propelled the satellites into their target low Earth orbit (LEO) with deploying planned for about fifty-nine minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX’s latest launch is its sixty-ninth Falcon-9 launch this year, out of those forty-nine have been related to expanding Starlink mega constellation.
Additionally, there are over one hundred satellites currently in operation within SpaceX’s Starlink network including more than six thousand others. The number of such satellites will rise as SpaceX develops and expands its Starlink system over time.
