SpaceX tops 6,300 Starlinks; IPO rumours

Later today [May 2nd], a SpaceX rocket will launch another 23 Starlink satellites from a Florida launch pad. It follows on from a Falcon 9 launch on April 28th which placed another batch of 23 Starlink broadband satellites into their transfer orbits. That launch took the total Starlinks launched to 6,304, of which 5,896 are still in orbit (because some have been de-orbited) and 5,822 are assessed as working in orbit according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.