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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Internet Satellites from Cape Canaveral

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 26 2020, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @09:52PM (#1069513)

    that would be 1 satellite per 12,751 square km

    Assuming uniform distribution is a horrible estimation. Do you know the delta-vee needed to put something into orbit out of the equatorial plane? That's not cheap and is not often done for LEOs. Your orbital plane strongly related to your launch latitude.