The launch of the heavy Falcon 9 launch vehicle with another batch of 60 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed for a day, SpaceX said.. " To allow additional time for pre-launch inspections, now targeting Wednesday, January 20 at 8:02 a. EST for launch of Starlink— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 19, 2021. This will be the 17th launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit, starting in May 2019, as part of the Starlink project. The previous batch of 60 Starlink satellites was launched on November 24 last year. SpaceX's orbital constellation already consists of 953 Starlink spacecraft. Now this company is the largest satellite operator in the world.. In the future, SpaceX plans to deploy an orbital constellation of 12 thousand. spacecraft of this type (and subsequently from 30 thousand. ) to create a full-scale network that will provide the inhabitants of the Earth with broadband Internet access anywhere in the world. The total investment in the project is estimated at $ 10 billion.