The American Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) launched 54 Starlink satellites into space.
SpaceX remarked that the Falcon 9 rocket that holds the satellites was launched Saturday night out of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The first phase of the rocket returned to Earth successfully after about eight minutes and 50 seconds, landing on SpaceX’s spacecraft, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
SpaceX explained that this batch of Starlink satellites will be the last 1.5 version, as the company moved to use the 2 satellite version, which was aboard the Falcon 9 rocket launched last Sunday evening.
The rocket was supposed to be launched last Friday, but was postponed due to high levels of liquid oxygen on the rocket’s first stage engines.
Source: Qatar News Agency