SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc, Calif. It put 24 satellites into near Earth orbit in polar areas.
Musk had told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX, the venture that controls Starlink, to cut coverage in areas including Kherson, a strategic region north of the Black Sea that Ukra
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SpaceX plans to launch 24 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, which may be visible above Southern California.
SpaceX Starlink has been on a satellite launch spree lately. Last week, the Elon Musk-owned company successfully sent 24 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenbueg Space Force base, and now it is planning to add 28 more satellites to its constellation.
Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts. Starlink and its founder, Elon Musk, confirmed the outage and said they were investigating the issue.