SpaceX launches 60 ‘Starlink’ internet satellites into orbit
Updated on May 24, 2019 02:48 PM IST
The American company SpaceX launched the first satellite group in the orbit of the Starlink project. The Falcon 9 launcher, with 60 satellites, flew from the launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, May 23. The Starlink project, which is being developed since 2015, is designed to provide reliable and fast access to the Internet anywhere in the world. The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, plans to launch several such spacecraft into the orbit.