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SpaceX completed its 11th flight and landing with today’s Falcon 9 booster on Monday, as the company sent more Starlink satellites into orbit.
In the tweet, @SpaceX said, “Deployment of 46 Starlink satellites confirmed”.
Deployment of 46 Starlink satellites confirmed
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 21, 2022
The news also comes just after SpaceX Head Elon Musk stated over the weekend that Starlink was testing on Gulfstream jets with plans to deploy on commercial airlines first.
Check out the full launch replay below from this morning at Space Launch Complex (SLC-40), at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida:
Last week, SpaceX also announced a 10-for-1 stock split for common stock, bringing the stock price from $560 to $56 after the move — which the company says is largely cosmetic and doesn’t change anything about its valuation.
Musk said last week that SpaceX has surpassed 250,000 Starlink terminals, just as the European Union (EU) revealed a $6.8 billion plan to rival Starlink with its own low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet.
SpaceX also helped deliver Starlink satellites to those affected by a disastrous volcanic eruption in Tonga, after the natural disaster broke a single fiber-optic cable connecting the country to the rest of the world.
In January, SpaceX said it had 1,469 Starlink satellites active, just a few weeks before a geomagnetic storm took a handful of the orbital Starlink satellites out of commission.
