SpaceX Launches Third Flight In Five Days, Lifts Starlink Satellites To Orbit

SpaceX Starlink launch
Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—SpaceX sent its 47th batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on May 18, marking the company’s third launch within five days. A 229-ft.-tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 6:59 a.m. EDT with 53 satellites for SpaceX’s still-growing Starlink broadband...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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