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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 9:56 AM ET (1456 GMT)
SpaceX conducted its first Starlink launch of the year Jan. 19. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:43 am EST (1543 GMT) and deployed 51 Starlink satellites into orbit about a half-hour later. The rocket's first stage, on its first launch, landed on a droneship in the Pacific. SpaceX has now launched more than 3,700 Starlink satellites, of which more than 3,400 are in orbit.
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