SpaceX builds and launches rockets for NASA missions, and to take commercial satellites into space. Last week they took their own satellites into orbit for their own project, called Starlink.
Starlink Broadband Network will provide "cost-effective" internet connection all over the globe, including to consumers who have never had service before.
As you'll see in SpaceX's video below, their Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites. Falcon 9's first stage propels the payload through the atmosphere, then disengages and returns to earth. This was the third time this particular first stage has landed safely back on earth after a mission.
Re-usability of rockets is probably the key distinctive of our current space era, a total game changer for travel in space.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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