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SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink internet satellites into space

Xinhua | Updated: 2023-11-23 11:21

View of the SpaceX air streamers adjacent to SpaceX Starbase in Brownsville, Texas, US, Aug 19, 2023. [Photo/Agencies]

LOS ANGELES - US private space company SpaceX launched 23 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Wednesday.

The satellites were launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida at 2:47 am Wednesday Eastern Time, according to SpaceX.

Falcon 9's first stage returned and landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

The company later confirmed the deployment of the 23 satellites.

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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