Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to launch satellites into Earth’s orbit and has just reached a major milestone.
On Sunday, two of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted from Florida and California with 28 Starlink satellites each, adding a total of 56 additional satellites to the sky.
This brings the total number of Starlink satellites SpaceX has launched to date to more than 10,000, the company said in a tweet.
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Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, is a high-speed internet service provided from a network of low-orbiting satellites. The company launched its first test satellites in 2018, followed by the first 60 operational satellites the following year. Since then, the company has continued to steadily expand its Starlink fleet, despite persistent concerns about the company’s potential contribution to the growing problem of space debris.
Starlink does authorized by the FCC to launch a total of 12,000 satellites. The company plans maximum 30,000 bets additional satellites.
However, not all of the company’s satellites are still operational. Immediately typical lifespan of five yearssome have been taken out of usewhich usually means that they are intuitively deorbited to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. There are approximately 8,600 Starlink satellites reportedly currently in orbit.
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