This time, SpaceX engineers have covered one of the satellites with an "experimental layer", it should solve the problem
First reusable booster stageThe Falcon 9 has been used for the fourth time. 9 minutes after the launch, it automatically landed on the Of Course I Still Love You floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed! pic.twitter.com/hA8eUp7dNI
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 7, 2020
In 2019, SpaceX brought to low Earthorbit two batches of 60 Starlink satellites. In total, they want to deploy 12 thousand spacecraft to create a full-blown network that will provide Earth's inhabitants with broadband Internet access anywhere in the world. According to the company's plans, this will happen at the end of 2020.
Launched satellites in the future should create a networkInternetX Earlier, the head of the company, Elon Musk, said that the Internet, distributed from satellites, will work 40 times faster than with any operator on Earth. The devices will operate at an altitude of 550 km.