Elon Musk Launched the First 60 Starlink Satellites Here
· 2019-5
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Elon Musk Launched the First 60 Starlink Satellites Here
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On May 23, 2019, at 10:30 p.m. Eastern, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the first 60 Starlink satellites.
At more than 13,600 kilograms, the flat-packed stack was the heaviest payload SpaceX had ever launched. The booster was flying its third mission and landed on a drone ship offshore.
Sixty satellites were a sliver of the plan: a constellation of thousands beaming broadband to the ground, with the revenue intended to bankroll Musk's Mars ambitions. Skeptics pointed out that satellite internet had already bankrupted earlier ventures like Iridium.
The launch also showed how SpaceX's skills compound. Reusable boosters made launches cheap, and cheap launches were the only thing that made a mega-constellation financially possible.
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