SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video, photos)

SpaceX 从佛罗里达州发射 29 颗 Starlink 卫星进入轨道（视频、照片）

SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11).

SpaceX今天（8月11日）又向天空发射了一批星链互联网卫星。

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 GMT), carrying 29 of the broadband spacecraft toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

美国东部时间今天上午11点58分（格林尼治标准时间15:58），一枚猎鹰9号火箭从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地发射升空，携带29颗宽带航天器进入近地轨道（LEO）。

About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first stage made a pinpoint landing in the Atlantic Ocean atop the SpaceX droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas." It was the 18th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085.

大约 8.5 分钟后，火箭第一级在 SpaceX 无人机飞船“重力不足”顶部精确降落在大西洋。这是这种特殊助推器的第18次飞行，它被命名为B1085。

Though more than half its liftoffs have been Starlink flights, B1085 also has some astronaut missions under its belt. The booster lofted SpaceX's Crew-9 flight to the International Space Station in September 2024, and it launched the Fram2 mission around Earth's poles six months later.

尽管 B1085 的起飞次数中有一半以上是星链（Starlink）任务，它名下也执行过数次载人飞行。这枚助推器曾于 2024 年 9 月将 SpaceX 的 Crew-9 任务送入国际空间站，并在六个月后发射了环绕地球两极飞行的 Fram2 任务。

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 29 Starlink satellites to LEO today. They'll be deployed there 64 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.

与此同时，猎鹰 9 号的二级继续将 29 颗星链卫星运送至低地球轨道。若一切按计划进行，它们将在起飞后 64 分钟于该轨道释放。

Today's liftoff was the 93rd Falcon 9 launch of the year already. Seventy-two of those missions have been devoted to building out Starlink, the largest satellite constellation ever assembled.

今天的发射已经是今年猎鹰9号的第93次发射了。其中72项任务致力于建造星链，这是有史以来组装的最大卫星星座。

Starlink currently consists of more than 10,900 active satellites, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. But SpaceX has even bigger megaconstellations in mind: Eventually, the company wants to operate 100,000 of its bigger, more capable Starlink V3 satellites, and Elon Musk has stated an ambition to launch a million AI data center satellites to Earth orbit as well.

天体物理学家乔纳森·麦克道尔的数据显示，星链目前在轨运行的卫星超过 10,900 颗。但 SpaceX 的计划还要更大：公司最终希望运营 10 万颗体积更大、能力更强的星链 V3 卫星；而埃隆·马斯克还表示，有意再向地球轨道发射 100 万颗 AI 数据中心卫星。