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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink internet satellites into space

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-11-22 08:51

FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is launched, carrying 23 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US May 6, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]

LOS ANGELES -- US private space company SpaceX launched 24 Starlink satellites into orbit on Thursday.

According to SpaceX, the satellites were launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:07 am Eastern Time.

SpaceX later confirmed the deployment of the 24 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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