SpaceX fires its 2,000th Starlink satellite into space as Elon Musk’s rocket company keeps up rapid-fire launch pace with the third Falcon 9 blast-off of the year
太空X marked a milestone in its ambitious internet constellation project by firing its 2,000th Starlink satellite into space.
伊隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）‘s firm launched another 49 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, 佛罗里达 在 21:02 ET Tuesday (02:02 GMT Wednesday).
Deployment of the Starlink satellites, which are each about the size of a table, was confirmed by SpaceX on 推特 about one hour and 20 minutes after lift-off.
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In this image taken with a slow shutter speed, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, arcs across the night sky in this view Viera, 佛罗里达, 一月 18, 2022
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As part of its beta service, Starlink internet is already available in 23 世界各国, 包括英国.
然而, next-generation Starlink constellations could have a whopping 42,000 Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit, Musk hopes.
Tuesday’s launch marks the third Falcon 9 blast-off of the year, following a Starlink batch on January 6 and the third Transporter ‘rideshare’ mission on January 13.
SpaceX also successfully landed Falcon 9’s first stage on one of SpaceX’s drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, 10 minutes after launch.
The recovery vessel catches falling boosters and returns them to port to save on costs.
‘Deployment of 49 Starlink satellites confirmed,’ SpaceX tweeted. ‘Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.’
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday. The rocket was carrying 49 Starlink satellites
A Starlink satellite is seen in an artist’s rendering. China says its space station had to take evasive action twice to avoid collision threats with the satellites
Musk also 发推文 a stunning shot of the Falcon 9 rocket silhouetted against the light of the moon, shortly after launch.
周六, Musk gave an update on the amount of Starlink satellites that are actually active above Earth,
Many have stopped working and are now just obsolete ‘space junk cluttering up low-Earth orbit and at risk of crashing into other spacecraft.
Prior to Tuesday’s launch, 1,469 Starlink satellites active and another 272 are ‘moving to operational orbits’, 麝香说.
‘Laser links activate soon’, 马斯克补充说, in reference to lasers that route data between individual satellites in the constellation.
Next-generation Starlink constellations could have a whopping 42,000 Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit, hopes Elon Musk (图为)
SpaceX already has its next batch of Starlink satellites scheduled for launch aboard Falcon 9 在一月 29 — the third Starlink launch of 2022.
曾经有 18 Starlink launches throughout the whole of 2021, totalling the deployment of nearly 1,000 individual satellites in all.
上个星期, 太空X launched the third Transporter ‘rideshare’ 使命, which released 105 microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government clients.
SpaceX’s rideshare program allows corporations and governments to send a 200-kilogram payload into orbit for the relatively cheap price of $1 million – compared to a solo mission for a $50 百万.
