[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SpaceX successfully launched today a Falcon 9 rocket carrying three satellites, two of which will test the company’s plan to beam broadband internet back to Earth.
The launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carried a radar-imaging satellite for Hisdesat, a military-focused subsidiary of Spain’s national satellite company. SpaceX’s own broadband satellites, Microsat-2a and -2b, are the first prototypes for Starlink, the company’s planned constellation of satellites to provide broadband internet around the world.
SpaceX did not attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage, which flew in a previous mission. However, the company did try to catch the fairing with a giant net installed on a ship in the Pacific Ocean. Musk tweeted that the fairing missed its target by a few hundred meters.
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Watch SpaceX’s broadcast of the mission below.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p-PToD2URA” video_title=”1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]