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6 April – USA – On Saturday night, SpaceX carried out another successful launch: a Falcon 9 rocket placed 28 Starlink satellites into orbit, adding to the world’s largest satellite network.
The launch took place on 5 April at 23:07 Eastern Time from the Cape Canaveral Space Centre. According to Space.com, the first stage of the rocket returned to Earth in 8 minutes and successfully landed on the SpaceX Just Read the Instructions unmanned vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 19th flight and the landing of the same first stage is another confirmation of the effectiveness of the reusability of Elon Musk’s rockets.
The upper stage of the Falcon 9 launched the satellites into low Earth orbit about an hour after launch.
This launch was the 39th Falcon 9 mission in 2025, and almost two-thirds of them were dedicated to the deployment of the Starlink mega constellation, a global Internet network covering almost the entire world.
Today, there are more than 7,100 Starlink satellites in orbit, and this number continues to grow rapidly.
The mission once again underscores SpaceX’s ambition to provide global high-speed internet coverage – especially for hard-to-reach and remote regions.
