Elon Musk's SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites from Florida

[TexasTowelie]

ORLANDO, Fla., April 22 (UPI) -- Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on time at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday into a clear blue sky from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It was the seventh such launch for SpaceX's communications satellite network, which is the largest constellation in history. The company has launched 422 of the spacecraft in a little over a year.

The space company also landed the mission's first-stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after liftoff -- the fourth landing for that booster.

The rocket was launched from historic Launch Complex 39A, from which Apollo moon missions and space shuttles lifted off. SpaceX leases the complex from NASA.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/04/22/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-launches-60-Starlink-satellites-from-Florida/1581587487669/?ls=4

[NNadir]

1. This is tragic, since the unregulated distribution of this stuff will damage...

...space science as well as end up with a debris field that may close off access to space for future generations.

This man, Musk, is a world class asshole.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. It's also bad for ground-based astronomy. /nt

[Igel]

4. Nah, he's a genius

Right down to his "children are immune" to the coronavirus tweet.

[NNadir]

5. Thankfully, I missed it. n/t.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Time to fine them for littering. nt