SpaceX launches 21 more Starlinks in first flight of weekend triple header

SpaceX launches 21 more Starlinks in first flight of weekend triple header

Benjamin Hughes

SpaceX rocket launches 50 Starlink satellites

SpaceX rocket launches 50 Starlink satellites into orbit

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In the first launch of a planned weekend triple header, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites, 13 with direct-to-cell capability, blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday and successfully delivered its payload to orbit. 

It was the 187th launch of the company’s Starlink internet relay satellites.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying 21 Starlink satellites.

William Harwood/CBS News


The satellites are designed to provide communications services across high-latitude regions not served by traditional geosynchronous satellites.

William Harwood

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News.

Source: cbsnews.com