Los Angeles: U.S. private space company SpaceX launched 24 Starlink satellites into orbit on Thursday.
According to SpaceX, the satellites were launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:07 a.m. Eastern Time.
SpaceX later confirmed the deployment of the 24 satellites.
Starlink will deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable, according to SpaceX.
