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SpaceX launches 48 more Starlink internet satellites into space

Xinhua | Updated: 2023-07-09 07:16

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket lifts off from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight before exploding, near Brownsville, Texas, US April 20, 2023. [Photo/Agencies]

LOS ANGELES - US private space company SpaceX launched 48 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Friday.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 12:29 pm Pacific Time from the Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Soon after the launch, Falcon 9's first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

Starlink will deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable, according to SpaceX.

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