• SpaceX sent a packed rocket of 60 satellites into space.
• The launch was “the heaviest payload a Falcon 9 rocket has ever launched.
• The satellites represent the company’s ambitious plan to build an interconnected satellite network to beam high-speed internet to anywhere on the planet.
• The Falcon 9 rocket launched from the company’s pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• SpaceX deployed the 60 Starlink satellites in a “very low Earth orbit” of 440 kilometers above the surface.
• The full Starlink network would consist of 11,943 satellites flying close to the planet, closer than the International Space Station.