SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
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Virginians who spotted a glowing light streaking across the early morning sky Saturday weren’t seeing a UFO — it was a SpaceX rocket.
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.
Reports of service disruptions flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing internet outages and, in some cases, total blackouts. Starlink and its founder, Elon Musk, confirmed the outage and said they were investigating the issue.
A brief outage of Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, impacted Ukraine’s front line military communications, just hours after Russian drones hit the city of Kharkiv. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports from Kyiv.
Crew-11 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, if all goes to plan.