MOSCOW, April 15 – RIA Novosti. Us company SpaceX has postponed the planned Thursday launch of the carrier rocket Falcon-9, which is supposed to launch 60 satellites Starlink, told the publication Florida Today.
According to him, the launch of Starlink 60 satellites from the spaceport in Florida was postponed for unclear reasons. New launch date for SpaceX is not yet known, however, according to the newspaper, the launch postponed “at least for a few days.”
the Previous batch of 60 satellites SpaceX successfully launched into orbit from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral on March 18.
Starlink – satellite-next-generation network, able to provide the inhabitants of the Earth broadband access to the Internet. The project implementation began in February 2018. It is planned to run about 12 thousand satellites. 30 thousand satellites to orbit with elevations from 328 to 580 kilometers. SpaceX has estimated the cost of the project at $ 10 billion, but experts believe this figure too low.
