Hawthorne, May 17 -- SpaceX launched a batch of 26 Starlink satellites from California on Friday, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. With this mission, the company has now launched more than 1,000 of its broadband internet satellites this year.
According to the multibillionaire Elon Musk-owned-private-space company, the satellites were launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 6:43 a.m. Pacific Time, according to Space.
The agency said that this was the second flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched two Starlink missions.
Eight minutes later, the Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship, 'Of Course I Still L...