SpaceX just unleashed its first 60 Starlink high-speed internet satellites and recorded a 'weird' vi
SpaceX just unleashed its first 60 Starlink high-speed internet satellites and recorded a 'weird' video of the maneuver
Dave Mosher
An illustration of SpaceX's Starlink: a fleet of internet-providing satellites that may one day surround Earth. Mark Handley/University College London
SpaceX launched and set loose the first 60 of nearly 12,000 planned high-speed internet satellites above Earth on Thursday night.
Elon Musk, the company's founder, previously said the Starlink satellites would "look kind of weird" as they floated away from their rocket and into space.
A live webcast of the rocket launch captured the five dozen satellites doing just that as they shuffled and bumped into orbit.
The spacecraft are expected to slowly separate, light up their ion engines, and gradually ascend to a higher orbit before undergoing weeks of internet testing.
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