Washington. September 14. INTERFAX-The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.
"The successful withdrawal of Starlink satellites has been confirmed," the message says.
The launch was carried out from the US Space Force base in Vandenberg (California) at 20:55 on Monday, US West Coast time (on Tuesday at 06:55 Moscow time).
This is the 31st launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project. The SpaceX orbital constellation now consists of 1,789 spacecraft.
Currently, the company is the largest satellite operator in the world.
Meanwhile, the reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which was used for the tenth time, made a controlled vertical landing on the floating platform Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.