SpaceX to launch 1st batch of ‘direct to cell’ Starlink satellites early Dec. 15

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Friday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday during a roughly 3.5-hour window that opens at 12:04 a.m. EST (0504 GMT; 9:04 p.m. on Dec. 14 local California time). And some of those satellites are trailblazers. “This launch will include the first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities that will enable mobile network operators…

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