Elon Musks SpaceX has been brisk with its rocket launches this year, and on Friday, it successfully completed another launch exercise.<\/p>\n
What Happened: SpaceX announced that on Friday, its Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.<\/p>\n
Starlink is a SpaceX-owned high-speed, low latency satellite internet service.<\/p>\n
SpaceX noted that Fridays launch was the 10th flight for this Falcon 9 first-stage booster. Falcon 9 is the companys reusable two-stage rocket for transporting people and payloads into Earths orbit, the Moon, and Mars. This was the 56th Starlink commission and SpaceXs 36th launch of 2022.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Tesla, Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk shared a video of Falcon 9 being prepared for the flight, and captioned it as adding the 13 inner engines.<\/p>\n
Why Its Important: SpaceX has already overtaken last years 31 orbital launches by late July.Musk complimented the team for achieving the feat. Estonia became the latest country where Starlink's service became available.<\/p>\n
Starlink recently won a contract from the U.S. Air Force for providing fixed-site and portable services, with the Air Force citing in the documents that it believes the Musk-led service is the only Low-Earth Orbit satellite network providing services to Europe and Africa.<\/p>\n
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