According to Space.com, it was Falcon 9 rocket’s sixth launch, It has launched the first Sentinel-6 Michael Frelich Earth-observation satellite, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission and three batches of Starlink Internet satellites.
Starlink is a satellite-based global Internet system that SpaceX has been developing over the years to provide Internet connectivity to remote parts of the planet.
SpaceX has deployed more than 2,700 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
From 2019 onwards, SpaceX has deployed more than 2,700 Starlink satellites in low-earth orbit, amassing hundreds of thousands of users, many of whom pay $110 per month for broadband internet via a $599 self-installed terminal kit.
In recent years, the Hawthorne, California-based space business has focused largely on recruiting airlines around Starlink for in-flight WiFi, which made its first such arrangement with Hawaiian Airlines and semi-private jet operator JSX Is.
SpaceX, satellite operator OneWeb, and Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper project, an arm of e-commerce giant Amazon.com, which plans to launch prototype satellites for its broadband network later this year, all use low-Earth satellites. Orbiting satellites are competing in the Internet market.