At 9:25 EST on March 3, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 47 "Starlink" satellites at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the cumulative number of "Starlink" satellites launched exceeded 2,200.
The launch was the 11th flight and landing of the rocket's first-stage booster, and the third SpaceX rocket to fly 11 in one rocket.
After the separation of the first and second stage, the first stage booster landed on the unmanned barge "please read the instructions" in the Atlantic Ocean.
Prior to this, this first-stage booster has performed GPS III-3 launch missions, Turkish communications satellite Turksat-5A launch missions, SpaceX’s second exclusive joint single-launch Transporter 2 mission, and 7 “Starlink” launch missions. .
After the launch, SpaceX said on social media that the launch was the ninth Falcon 9 launch completed in the first nine weeks of 2022.
This launch is the 39th batch of "Starlink" satellites deployed by SpaceX's special network since the first batch of 60 "Starlink" satellites took to the sky in May 2019, and the sixth batch of "Starlink" network specially launched this year.
Last year, SpaceX set a record of launching 31 Falcon 9 rockets throughout the year, 17 of which were specially deployed for the "Starlink" satellite network launch.
Counting the "Starlink" satellites that were previously piggybacked by "carpooling", so far, SpaceX has launched a total of 2,232 "Starlink" satellites.
If you count the two test satellites Microsat-2A and Microsat-2B launched in February 2018, SpaceX has launched 2,234 "Starlink" satellites.
Regarding SpaceX's satellite manufacturing capabilities, SpaceX recently said that it can manufacture 45 satellites per week and has launched 240 satellites in a month.
Musk, on the other hand, said that this year SpaceX plans to launch about 50 times, an average of one launch per week.
The Paper reporter Zhang Jing