SpaceX launched 60 more satelllites Wednesday as apart of CEO Elon Musk's "Starlink" mission to bring high speed internet to large, remote parts of the world.
"Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity, including those in rural communities and places where existing services are too expensive or unreliable," SpaceX said in a statement when announcing the launch.
On Wednesday, June 3 at 9:25 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launched its eighth Starlink mission. Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Monday's satellite launch is the "heaviest payload to date, first re-flight of a fairing, and first Falcon 9 to fly a fourth mission," the company said in a tweet prior to the launch.
Starlink vertical on the pad pic.twitter.com/WuiB1piKcK— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2019
SpaceX confirmed that all 60 Starlink satellites were successfully deployed approximately after an hour of the launch.
Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed! pic.twitter.com/bpBqO9oYR3— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 11, 2019
Elon Musk has responded to the claims on Twitter, saying, "Starlink won’t be seen by anyone unless looking very carefully & will have ~0% impact on advancements in astronomy."
There are already 4900 satellites in orbit, which people notice ~0% of the time. Starlink won’t be seen by anyone unless looking very carefully & will have ~0% impact on advancements in astronomy. We need to move telelscopes to orbit anyway. Atmospheric attenuation is terrible. pic.twitter.com/OuWYfNmw0D— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2019
The Starlink mission aims to provide internet in the northern U.S and Canada in 2020 and expand to "nearly global average of the populated world by 2021," according to SpaceX's website.
With low-cost broadband connectivity, it aims to provide 1 gigabyte per second internet speed.
After the global reach, it may change the face of the whole world and the Age of Internet might reach to it's new peak.
