A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX’s 100th Starlink objective. Image: SpaceX. After hold-ups brought on by Hurricane Hilary, SpaceX released its 100th Starlink objective on Tuesday. A Falcon 9 bring 21 second-generation Starlink satellites took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:37 a.m. PDT (5:37 a.m. EDT/ 0937 UTC). It was the 100th Falcon 9 with the main objective of releasing Starlink satellites considering that the very first in 2019. Based upon stats put together by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who preserves an area flight database, Tuesday’s launch brings the overall variety of Starlink satellites released to 4,983. In early May, SpaceX revealed it had 1.5 million customers worldwide to its Starlink network which uses low latency, high speed Internet service worldwide. This was the 13th launch of the business’s next generation satellites, referred to as Starlink V2 Minis, which are bigger and provide 4 times the broadband capability of the previous designs. 8 and a half minutes after taking off, the very first phase of the Falcon 9, making its 15th flight, touched down on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ stationed in the Pacific about 400 miles (644 km) downrange off the coast of Baja California. The 2nd phase of the Falcon 9 released the 21 V2 mini Starlink satellites into a 184 × 178 mile (296 × 286 km) orbit with a disposition of 53 degrees simply over an hour into flight, high above the Indian Ocean. Another batch of Starlink satellites are because of introduce from Cape Canaveral no earlier than Wednesday night.
West Coast Falcon 9 launches SpaceX’s 100th Starlink objective
