Washington. October 10th. INTERFAX - The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 51 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit in mid-October, it follows from the data of the specialized website Spaceflight Now.
The launch of the Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle with mini-satellites to replenish the orbital grouping of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system is supposed to be carried out from the launch pad at the US Space Force Vandenberg Air Base in California instead of the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in Florida.
SpaceX has not yet announced a launch date. This will be the 32nd launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project. The SpaceX orbital grouping already consists of 1,789 spacecraft.
Currently, the company is the largest satellite operator in the world.
