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New internet option emerges as SpaceX expands Starlink service to more customers

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ORLANDO, Fla. – After nearly 20 rocket launches packed with Starlink satellites and around 1,000 orbiting the Earth, the general public is slowly beginning to see the benefit of SpaceX’s plan to provide a space-based internet.

Beginning in May 2019, SpaceX started launching Starlink satellites, usually 60 at a time, and has slowly increased its launch cadence in the past year.

Since late 2020, a Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off from Florida’s coast almost biweekly sending satellites into space with the most recent liftoff in early February.

The Starlink constellation is part of CEO Elon Musk’s plan to create a space-based internet using a network of, eventually, up to 42,000 satellites.

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