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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Internet Satellites from Cape Canaveral

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 26 2020, @03:51PM   
from the the-inconceivable-has-become-commonplace dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 more Starlink internet relay satellites on Saturday, boosting the total number launched to date to 895 as the company builds out a planned constellation of thousands designed to provide global high-speed broadband service.

Running two days late because of an on-board camera issue, the Falcon 9's twice-flown first stage thundered to life at 11:31 a.m. EDT, pushing the 229-foot-tall rocket away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the California rocket builder's 19th launch so far this year and its 15th Starlink flight.

[...] With Saturday's launch, SpaceX has put 895 Starlinks into orbit, 180 of them — more satellites than any other company owns — in less than three weeks.

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Original Submission

• Re:Small teeny tiny satellites (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday October 26 2020, @05:08PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday October 26 2020, @05:08PM (#1068964) Journal

  more difficulties for astronomers who need a clear sky.
  Not a criticism, just an observation.

  Can't astronomers simply go to a planetarium to make observations?

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