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SpaceX’s successful launch of its 22nd batch of 60 Starlink satellites left a colorful cloud effect on Sunday morning.
SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES STARLINK SATELLITES, LANDS IN THE SEVENTH MISSION OF 2021
According to the Melbourne division of the National Weather Service, the mystical color palette was created by a combination of nocturnal and cirrus clouds and the dawn.
Night-luminous clouds are formed as a result of ice crystals created by water vapor, meteor dust and extremely cold temperatures of -215 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA.
The icy clouds, shining bright blue and white, float 50 miles above their heads in a layer of the atmosphere called the mesosphere. They are only visible when illuminated by the sun from below the horizon. They first appear in summer – around mid-May in the Northern Hemisphere and mid-November in the South – when the mesosphere is at its most humid, with the heat of the season raising moisture to the sky.
Night-luminous clouds, also called polar mesospheric clouds, help scientists better understand the mesosphere and how it is connected to the rest of the atmosphere, weather and climate.
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Sunday’s mission marks a record ninth flight and landing for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster, the aerospace company said.
Starlink, the company’s high-speed Internet service that aims to provide global coverage where access was unreliable or completely unavailable, has launched more than 1,000 satellites into orbit and has more than 10,000 users in the United States and in the United States. abroad since the launch of the beta version ‘Better Than Nothing’ at home and abroad in October.
Preorders for Starlink’s service became available in February for $ 99. The company’s website insists that preorders are “fully refundable,” but notes that “posting a deposit is not a guarantee of service.” Pre-orders are handled on a first come, first served basis. For some locations entered on the website, SpaceX says coverage will not be available until “ mid to late 2021, ” while in other areas no service will be available until 2022.
Photo courtesy of Starlink
The full Starlink kit costs $ 499 and includes a mountable satellite dish, Wi-Fi router and power supply. The service will be offered first in the US, Canada and the UK. Musk teased last month that Starlink’s internet speeds will double to about 300 megabits per second later this year, while the latency – the time it takes to send data from one point to another point next – drops to about 20 milliseconds.
In a recent filing with the FCC, SpaceX filed for a blanket license that would allow the company to potentially connect Starlink to moving vehicles, ships and aircraft.
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Musk said in February that Starlink could potentially launch an IPO once SpaceX can “predict its cash flow reasonably well.”
“SpaceX must go through a deep chasm of negative cash flow over the next year to make Starlink financially viable. Every new satellite constellation in history has gone bankrupt. We hope to be the first to fail,” said Musk. “Starlink is an astonishingly difficult technical and economic endeavor. However, if we don’t fail, the costs for end users will improve every year.”
SpaceX recently completed a $ 850 million funding round at about $ 419.99 a share, boosting the aerospace company’s valuation by about 60% to about $ 74 billion, according to reports. The company previously raised $ 1.9 billion from a valuation of $ 46 billion in August, its largest round of funding to date.