SpaceX to launch 47 Starlink satellites, land rocket Thursday morning: Watch it live
The booster previously launched the GPS III SV03 mission in June 2020, Turksat 5A in January 2021, Transporter 2 in June 2021 and seven other Starlink batches, SpaceX representatives said., who has often said that full and rapid reuse of space hardware is the key breakthrough needed to help humanity colonize Mars and achieve other ambitious exploration goals.
Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet service, the first infrastructure for which launched in 2019. The network recently made headlines when CEO Elon Muskto Ukraine, where a Russian invasion has been interfering with internet access. "Now, you may have heard that Starlink has been activated in Ukraine to help with the internet access in that country," Siva Bharadvaj, SpaceX space operations engineer, said during the launch broadcast.
"A few days ago, the Ukrainian government confirmed that the Starlink kits had arrived," Bharadvaj said."We're told that they're already in use. We couldn't be more proud of all the teams that jumped in to make this effort happen, along with many individuals luckily was supported. Thank you, and we hope it helps."
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