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SpaceX launches 51 more Starlink satellites into space

Published : 11 May 2023, 02:24

  DF News Desk
A Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 second-generation Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United States, on April 19, 2023. File Photo: SpaceX via Xinhua.

U.S. private space company SpaceX launched 51 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Wednesday, reported Xinhua.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:09 p.m. Pacific Time from the Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Soon after the launch, SpaceX said the Starlink satellites were deployed.

Falcon 9's first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

Starlink will deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable, according to SpaceX.