After blasting off from California on Friday, a SpaceX rocket delivered 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation into orbit.
At 3.07 p.m. (local time), the Falcon 9 booster launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, and minutes later, the first stage landed on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean, while the second stage continued on to low Earth orbit.
The satellites were successfully deployed, SpaceX later tweeted.
Starlink is a space-based system that SpaceX has been developing for years in order to bring internet access to remote parts of the globe.
California-based Hawthorne Hundreds of Starlink satellites orbit Earth at an altitude of 340 miles, thanks to SpaceX. (550 kilometers).
