SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)

Space.com reports SpaceX launched twenty-four Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at nine thirty-five a.m. local time, with its reusable first stage landing on the company's droneship about eight and a half minutes later — marking the sixteenth flight for this particular booster. The satellites deployed about an hour into the mission, adding to Starlink's constellation of over ten thousand nine hundred active satellites.

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