There is no rest for Starlink’s launch follower with a lot of space, since Spacex continues to highly highly satellites from the Internet in orbit.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Spacex Starlink 6-93 mission on Tuesday night (May 6) from the Cape Cañaveral space force station (CCSFS) in Florida. The takeoff occurred at 9:17 PM EDT (0117 GMT on May 7) From the launch of CCSFS Complex-40 (LC-40), one of two launch sites that the company operates on the space coast.
The Falcon 9 brought the 28 new Starlink satellites to the orbit of the Lower Earth (Leo), where they will join a constellation of more than 7,200 of the Internet satellites.
The Falcon 9 Booster that supports this mission, a designated vehicle B1085, executed the main engine of its nine Merlin engines about 2.5 minutes in flight, quickly followed by the separation of the stage. B1085 then made a retrograde burn to stop his speed on his way back to the earth, while the second stage of Falcon 9 continued to Leo.
Approximately eight minutes after takeoff, B1085 landed safely in Spacex, just read drone instructions, parked in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the seventh launch of B1085 and Starlink’s third mission of The Booster.
The upper stage of the rocket continued towards Leo, where the 28 Starlink satellites were deployed in time of approximately one hour in flight. The next few days will spend maneuvering in more specific orbits to join the growing megaconstellation of Spacex.
The Spacex Starlink Network consists of more than 7,200 operational satellites and counting. Each one of the size of a large table, not counting its wide solar matrices, the satellites operate in a grid to form a network on almost the entire planet, excluding the poles. Starlink offers customers a high -speed Internet connection from anywhere (not the posts), can point out their Starlink Townd the Sky receiver.
The launch of Tuesday was the 53A Falcon 9 of Spacex of 2025, and the 36th Starlink launch of the company so far this year. The company has also launched two test flights of its Starship Megarockt in 2025.
