The Falcon 9 launch on Thursday, the 27th launch of 2021 for Elon Musk's SpaceX, with five more planned in what remains of the year.
Starlink satellites orbit Earth closer than most geostationary satellites at a height of around 340 miles, rather than at around 22,000 miles above the planet.
The Starlink website continues:"Because Starlink satellites are in a low orbit, the round-trip data time between the user and the satellite—also known as latency—is much lower than with satellites in geostationary orbit." As well as accounting for over 94 percent of SpaceX rocket missions, Falcon 9s have a high success rate of over 98 percent, with just two mission failures in the history of its use.
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