Launch vehicle Falcon 9 private company Ilona Mask SpaceX successfully started from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA). A live broadcast of the launch was conducted in the Twitter organization. - SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 16, 2017, 00:49 The rocket put in orbit a communication satellite Inmarsat-5 F4, which should provide broadband Internet access for passengers of aircraft and sea vessels. The device was created by the American company Boeing, it is the fourth in the series and the last. With him, the global satellite network Global Xpress. The expected lifetime of the satellite is 15 years. In March 2017, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9, the first stage of which was already sent to space. After nine minutes, the missile successfully landed on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

On May 4, SpaceX vice president Patricia Cooper said that the company intends to launch more than four thousand satellites to distribute high-speed Internet until 2024. According to her, the company will begin testing prototypes in 2017 and will launch the first satellite by the end of the year. The second device will be put into orbit around the Earth in 2018.

Original article: Falcon 9 put into orbit a satellite to provide aircraft with a Wi-Fi network.