{"id":56006,"date":"2022-02-03T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-closes-out-triple-launch-week-with-starlink-mission\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:59:39","slug":"spacex-closes-out-triple-launch-week-with-starlink-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-closes-out-triple-launch-week-with-starlink-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Closes Out Triple-Launch Week With Starlink Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_341074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341074\" style=\"width: 789px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-341074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.54.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.54.01-PM.png 789w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.54.01-PM-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-03-at-3.54.01-PM-310x200.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX launches 49 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 3. Screenshot via SpaceX\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>SpaceX<\/b> launched a batch of 49 Starlink satellites on Thursday afternoon in its third launch of the week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida followed the COSMO-SkyMed launch for the Italian government from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday, and the NROL-87 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 Starlink satellites to Low-Earth Orbit, taking off at 1:13 p.m. ET. The satellites were deployed about 15 minutes after liftoff, and SpaceX confirmed successful payload deployment after the launch. The first stage booster was successfully recovered on a droneship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the third launch of 2022 for Starlink, a constellation of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) that provides broadband internet service in areas with unreliable or unavailable terrestrial service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is sold direct-to-consumer and just this week, SpaceX began taking pre-orders for Starlink Premium, a Starlink service geared toward businesses and high demand users.&nbsp;Starlink Premium is expected to provide download speeds of 150 to 500 Mbps and latency of 20 to 40 ms, and it service costs $500 per month, with a $2,500 charge for the user terminal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COSMO-SkyMed, launched Tuesday, is the second satellite of the second generation constellation, built by Thales Alenia Space. It is a project of the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Defense Ministry and offers synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging.<\/p>\n<p>NROL-87, launched Wednesday, is a classified payload to support the NRO\u2019s reconnaissance mission. The office said the mission will support its ability to provide timely intelligence information for national security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launches 49 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 3. Screenshot via SpaceX\/YouTube SpaceX launched a batch of 49 Starlink satellites on Thursday afternoon in its third launch of the week.&nbsp; Thursday\u2019s Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida followed the COSMO-SkyMed launch for the Italian government from Cape Canaveral Space Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}