SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With 53 Starlink Satellites
© AP Photo / John RaouxA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the 26th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
© AP Photo / John Raoux
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space with 53 Starlink satellites, the space company said Saturday.
The rocket's first stage landed on a droneship, the company said.
Falcon 9 is partially reusable. Several of SpaceX fist-stage bosters have been launched into space more than once.
Falcon 9's 25th launch of 2021 pic.twitter.com/hq1835HEgJ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 13, 2021
Deployment of 53 Starlink satellites confirmed pic.twitter.com/bnYtOqUUfC
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 13, 2021
Starlink satellites, operated by SpaceX, offer internet coverage in several countries via a beta-test program.