SpaceX Successfully Launches New Starlink Mini Satellites Written 28 February 2023
On Monday, February 27, at 6:13 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
UPI reports that SpaceX launched 21 “V2 Mini” satellites to add to their Starlink Internet constellation from Cape Canaveral on Monday evening. SpaceX announced “Liftoff!” in a tweet at 6:16 p.m. EST, “showing the Falcon 9 rocket lift off from pad 40 against the sunset.” The launch “was delayed earlier Monday to allow radiation levels to drop following a solar storm.” Starlink’s new satellite design, called “V2 Mini,” holds “four times the communications capacity of early generations of Starlink satellites, known as Version 1.5,” SpaceX said.
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On Monday, February 27, at 6:13 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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