SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network has reached a new milestone. As of this past weekend, the company launched its 10,000th Starlink satellite into orbit, marking a new record in space history.

10,000 Starlink satellites in space

Two Falcon 9 rockets were launched from California and Florida on Sunday, carrying a total of 56 new satellites into orbit, as SpaceX announced on social media . This means the company has officially passed the 10,000 mark for satellites launched.

According to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, there have been 10,044 Starlink satellites launched since the project started in 2019. Around 8,680 of these are currently in active orbit above Earth, while approximately one to two satellites burn up every day in

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