Share with friends and circle of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > surging journalist Zhang Jing < / P > < p > at 18:12 EDT on December 2, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 48 "star chain" satellites and 2 remote sensing satellites of blacksky company in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This launch is SpaceX's 27th Falcon 9 mission this year, breaking the record of 26 missions set in 2020 < p > this launch is the ninth round-trip of a first-stage rocket to and from space. Previously, it has carried out GPS III-3 launch mission, Turkish communication satellite turksat 5A launch mission, small satellite "spell order" launch mission transporter-2 and five "star chain" missions. More than eight minutes after launch, the first stage rocket recovered and landed < p > this launch is the 32nd batch of "star chain" satellites deployed by SpaceX since the first batch of 60 "star chain" satellites were launched in May 2019, and it is also the 16th batch of "star chain" networking since this year < p > considering the "star chain" satellites carried by the previous "carpool", it has launched 1890 "star chain" satellites so far. Taking into account the two test satellites microsat-2a and microsat-2b launched in February 2018, SpaceX launched 1892 "star chain" satellites, far exceeding its original design of 1440 satellites < p > however, the supply chain problems related to the epidemic caused SpaceX to delay the launch of "star chain" user terminals. The global lack of "core" led to the postponement of the production of user terminal products connected to celestial satellites. In November, some reservation customers complained on social media that they would not get the "star chain" service until next year, although they had been waiting for this service for several months < p > < p > "the chip shortage in the past six months has slowed down our expected productivity and affected our ability to complete many star chain orders this year." "star chain" team said in an email recently, "we apologize for the delay in delivery. Our engineering, supply chain and production teams are trying to improve and streamline our products and factories and improve our productivity." < / P > < p > in the United States, the beta price of "star chain" service is $99 per month, and the price of equipment required by customers to connect satellites is $499, plus taxes, freight and accessories required for installing antennas. According to spacenews, SpaceX has been vigorously subsidizing user terminals to encourage users to adopt. On November 10, the FCC approved a new "star chain" antenna, and SpaceX said its manufacturing cost was lower
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