The first 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites launched Feb. The new satellites, known as the Starlink V2 Mini design, are larger and offer four times the broadband capacity of the older-design satellites.
Sunday’s mission continued deploying SpaceX’s older-generation Starlink V1.5 satellites, after two launches earlier this year started placing a new generation of Starlink satellites in orbit. The rest of the Starlink satellites were prototypes or failed platforms that have been retired from service and guided back into the atmosphere to burn up on re-entry. SpaceX currently has more than 4,000 functioning Starlink satellites in space, with more than 3,400 operational spacecraft and nearly 500 moving into their operational orbits, according to a tabulation by Jonathan McDowell, an expert tracker of spaceflight activity and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. After the Starlink 5-9 launch, SpaceX has sent 4,447 Starlink satellites into orbit
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The batch of 56 Starlink satellites tied the record for the heaviest payload ever launched by a SpaceX rocket, matching the figure on four previous Falcon 9 missions with a full load of Starlink spacecraft. SpaceX says each Starlink launch adds more than a terabit per second of capacity to the constellation. With Sunday’s launch, half of SpaceX’s 32 launches so far this year have been flights primarily dedicated to the Starlink broadband network, which provides high-speed, low-latency connectivity to customers around the world. The mission was numbered Starlink 5-9 in SpaceX’s launch sequence. EDT (0503:30 UTC) from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A little more than an hour later, the Falcon 9’s upper stage released the 56 Starlink internet satellites into orbit a few hundred miles above Earth.
The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 1:03:30 a.m. Fifty-six more Starlink internet satellites lifted off early Sunday atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s 32nd launch of the year.
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