A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 51 of the company's Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on May 10, 2023.
If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will return to Earth about nine minutes after liftoff. It will touch down on the SpaceX droneship Of Course I Still Love You, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, will continue carrying the satellites — five belonging to Iridium and the other 16 to OneWeb — to low Earth orbit.
Fifteen of the OneWeb satellites will further build out the company's broadband constellation in low Earth orbit. The 16th is a technology demonstrator known as JoeySat. "JoeySat contains several new technologies, including a digitally regenerative payload and demonstration of multi-beam electronically steered phased array antennas," OneWeb wrote in aSpaceX has already launched three batches of OneWeb internet satellites, sending 40 spacecraft skyward on each of those previous missions.
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