SpaceX completed its 60th rocket launch of the year, achieving the targeted milestone.

(taken from SpaceX official website)

[Compilation of Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] The US "Space Exploration Technology Corporation" (SpaceX) used a Falcon 9 rocket (Falcon 9) at 17:34 on the 28th Taipei time to launch the The first batch of 54 satellites of "Gen2 Starlink" (Gen2 Starlink) completed the company's 60th orbital launch mission this year, almost twice as many as last year's 31 launches, and achieved the target milestone.

About 8 minutes after the rocket lifted off, the booster returned to Earth and landed on SpaceX's offshore platform A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

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"This is the first launch of the Starlink upgraded network," SpaceX said in a statement. "Under the new license, our satellites can now be deployed to new orbits to add capacity to the network. Ultimately, this will allow us to add even more space." multi-client and provide faster internet speeds, especially in areas with current oversubscription."

SpaceX's Starlink satellite network currently has millions of active users, but the network is also under pressure to reduce download speeds as users grow day by day.

Although hundreds of first-generation Starlink satellites have been launched this year, broadband networks are still facing congestion problems.

In order to meet a larger customer base, SpaceX advanced the launch schedule of the second-generation Starlink.

SpaceX received approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the 1st of this month to launch up to 7,500 second-generation satellites into space, a key step in expanding the Starlink satellite network.

However, this is only part of the approval. The scale of SpaceX's application to the FCC is to send nearly 30,000 satellites of this type into low orbit.

The first-generation Starlink satellite was 3×1.5 meters in length and width, while the second-generation satellite was 7×3 meters and weighed 1.25 tons. It was much larger. It was originally scheduled to be launched by the Starship rocket, but Starkey’s first orbital test Flying has not yet seen the light of day, and the current Starlink satellites can't stop the enthusiasm of users, so SpaceX hinted at redesigning the second-generation satellites so that they can also be launched using the Falcon 9 rocket.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said that in addition to having a larger bandwidth, the second-generation Starlink satellites can also provide services directly to smartphones.

The satellites are still being launched using the Falcon 9, but SpaceX eventually plans to switch to the giant Starship rocket.

Starship is under development and has been waiting 18 months for permission to fly.

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