Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched 28 more satellites into low Earth orbit on July 26 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to the SpaceX official website, “This was the 22nd flight for

Of course, while Amazon may have dominated the e-commerce world terrestrially, its satellite internet offering has a long way to go to catch up to Starlink, which operates a network of more than 6,700 satellites, the largest satellite constellation in the world.

SpaceX Starlink has been on a satellite launch spree lately. Last week, the Elon Musk-owned company successfully sent 24 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenbueg Space Force base, and now it is planning to add 28 more satellites to its constellation.

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the reflected light by coating the satellites in a dark material, and also by adding reflective film to redirect the sunlight away from Earth.

The Starlink satellite internet network has resumed operation after a major outage that lasted about two and a half hours and affected connection stability, including in combat zones. Source: Starlink Vice President Michael Nicolls on X (Twitter);