Deployment of 58 Starlink Confirmed | SpaceX

We had an on-time liftoff from Cape Canaveral and everything is looking nominal for our second stage as we can see on our screen there the stack of payloads. 


We are carrying 58 Starlink satellites as well as three rideshare satellites for our customer planet we're about 10 seconds away from the first of three deployments for those planet sky sets sky's at 21 deploys confirmed. 


Deployment of 58 Starlink Confirmed | SpaceX



Okay, deployment confirmed for that first sky sat the first of three this morning and there on your screen at the end of the stack slowly making its way away from the second stage we can see that first sky sat moving along sky sad 20 deploys confirmed and confirmation that the second sky sat has deployed. 


Deployment of 58 Starlink Confirmed | SpaceX


We'll see that here momentarily there it is at the end of the stack again and awaiting the third and final deployment for this rideshare customer and sky's at 19 deploys confirmed and deployment confirmed for that third and final sky sat for our customer planet these three sky sats will be joining 18 already on an orbit which will complete the fleet of 21 and make it the largest high-resolution fleet of satellites in orbit to date like I mentioned before. 


They'll be capable of imaging a single location up to 12 times a day right now stage two is going to continue to coast in this orbit for a few more minutes during this time it will start to spin along its central axis which will give those startling satellites the momentum they require to space themselves out over time after deployment at t my t plus 46 minutes. 


So right now we're going to take a break but stay tuned because we'll be back at t plus 45 minutes in preparation for the deployment of those 58 starlight Starlink satellites stay with us 10 31am eastern time from cape Canaveral Florida for the sixth mission for this particular first stage we landed it successfully on our drone ship and there as you can see on your screen we successfully caught one of the fairing halves that is a recovery vessel. 


Ms tree caught that out of the air the second fairing half made a soft water landing so miss chief is in route to scoop it out of the ocean and before we went for a break we saw the successful deployment of the three skysat satellites for our customer planet which we're ridesharing along with Starlink this three skysatz will be joining the 18 already on orbit and will complete planet's fleet of 21 satellites and make it the largest high-resolution fleet of satellites in orbit to date. 


So here in just a couple of seconds, we will be deploying our 58 Starlink satellites which will be joining the nearly 600 that are on orbit now there is a chance and it looks like yeah I was just going to say that tension rod separation confirmed we have an expected loss of signal over our ground station there we go we can see the visual confirmation of Starlink deployment like I said before those 58 starlings will be joining 600 that are already on orbit and shortly they will be deploying their solar arrays over the next few days and weeks they will distance themselves out using the momentum created by the second stage like. 


I said we spun it along its central axis to provide the momentum required for those satellites to space out as you can see there so they'll be using their onboard ion thrusters to make their way to their operational orbit of 550 kilometers above the earth and we'll begin to start beaming down high-speed internet to us earthlings and with that wonderful view of those sterling satellites floating out into space. 


Conclusion


We will now bring our webcast to a close this morning we'd like to thank our customer planet for their continued support riding onboard Falcon 9 as well as the faa and the 45th space wing for supporting today's mission if you're interested in getting future updates about Starlink launches as well as general updates about future service availability head over to starlink.com to sign up for updates and we will see you next launch until then have a good one.

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