SpaceX has launched a batch of 60 “Starlink” satellites. The launch took place at 11:31 am Eastern Time from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. This is the 15th “Starlink” launch so far , and SpaceX has so far launched nearly 900 such “Starlink” small low-Earth orbit satellites .
Naijatechnews understands that this launch uses the Falcon 9 first-stage booster. The previous two launches were at the beginning of this year, including the first batch of Starlink satellites delivered in September. The booster was also successfully recovered and landed at sea on the “read-only command” floating autonomous landing vessel of SpaceX in the Atlantic.
Earlier this week, the Hector County Independent School District in Texas announced that it has become a new pilot partner for SpaceX’s Starlink network. Next year, the school district will obtain low-latency broadband connections through the “Starlink” network. At the beginning, it will connect up to 45 households. As more satellites are launched and online, it plans to expand it to 90 households.
Naijatechnews.com understands that the goal of SpaceX and Starlink is to provide broadband services on a global scale, especially in areas and rural areas that were previously difficult to reach. Its large satellite constellation will be committed to developing to tens of thousands of satellites before achieving the maximum target coverage. Compared with the large geostationary satellites that provide most of the current commercial satellite Internet, it has great advantages in delay and reliability. .
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