The American Falcon 9 heavy rocket SpaceX during the last launch on November 24 , set two records at once, reports SpaceNews.
The publication notes that the launch was the hundredth for Falcon 9 carriers, including a failed launch in June 2015, but not a rocket explosion in September 2016.
In addition, during the last launch, SpaceX managed to use the same first stage for launching the payload for the seventh time. The publication recalls that the first flight of the B1049 stage took place in September 2018, when the Canadian telecommunications satellite Telstar 18V was launched. The stage was activated for the second time in January 2019, when the Iridium satellites were launched. B1049 was subsequently used five times to launch Starlink satellites.
In August, the same first stage of a heavy rocket Falcon 9, after the successful launch of 58 spacecraft of the global Internet Starlink system and three satellites of the Planet company, was saved for the sixth time.
In the same month, Ars Technica reported that, according to the test Speedtest from Ookla, Starlink internet speed for downloading is 11-60 megabits per second, for downloading – 5-18 megabits per second. In this case, the signal delay time is 31-94 milliseconds. Some beta users of the system had ping times of 20-21 milliseconds.