SpaceX sendsout more satellites into orbit; 2nd liftoff setup Sunday night

SpaceX sendsout more satellites into orbit; 2nd liftoff setup Sunday night

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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California Sunday on an unmanned mission to deliver 22 more Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI

SpaceX introduced a Falcon 9 rocket from California Sunday on an unmanned objective to provide 22 more Starlink web satellites into low Earth orbit. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 14 (UPI) — SpaceX introduced a Falcon 9 rocket from California Sunday on an unmanned objective to provide 22 more Starlink web satellites into low Earth orbit.

Space X validated the success of the launch on the social media platform X.

The rocket, on its 18th objective, blasted off about 1 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, Calif., after several hold-ups due to severe weathercondition.

The liftoff took location after another launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida was scrubbed Saturday, however objective controllers rescheduled that blastoff for Sunday at 7: 27 p.m. EST, when the rocket will make its 12th flight to provide 23 extra web satellites.

The Falcon 9 rocket booster can provide payloads to area, then browse back to Earth and land upright on an ocean platform for lateron reuse.

The aerospace production business owned by billionaire Elon Musk got federal approval in December 2022 to launch 7,500 satellites to broaden the business’s Starlink web services around the world.

More than 5,300 satellites haveactually been put in orbit so far, with the objective of attaining web connection anywhere in the world, even in the most remote locations.

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