LOS ANGELES (AP) — U. S. space company SpaceX launched 22 Starlink satellites into orbit Monday.
The satellites were introduced aboard a Falcon Nine rocket at 7:30 p. m. Pacific Time (0230 GMT Tuesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, according to SpaceX.
The first level of Falcon nine landed on the “Of Course, I Still Love You” drone parked in the Pacific Ocean.
Subsequently, the company showed the deployment of the 22 satellites.
Starlink will provide high-speed web access to places where access is unreliable, expensive or absolutely unavailable, according to SpaceX.