Spacex launched Falcon 9 carrier rocket with another group of 52 Starlink satellites, as well as two Capella Space and Tyvak-0130 satellites. This is reported by TASS.
The launch was made from a cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 18:56 in the time of the east coast of the United States (01:56 Moscow on May 16). The first stage of the carrier missile successfully landed on the platform in the Atlantic Ocean, reported in twitter – company account.
In February, the founder of Spacex Ilon Mask promised to increase the speed of Satellite Internet Starlink twice in 2021.
January 24 Spacex Ilona Mask successfully launched a rocket with 143 Starlink satellites. The cost of launching a satellite weighing 200 kilograms cost the company about a million dollars. The first group of the Satellites of the Global Network Project Starlink, designed to provide Internet access in various regions of the world, was launched in May 2019. In March 2021, the company launched Falcon 9 carrier missile with another group of 60 Starlink Internet satellites.