The first sixty Starlink satellites are deployed
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A single Falcon 9 released sixty flat-packed satellites into low Earth orbit, beginning the deployment of the largest constellation ever built. The launch also began an argument that has not ended: astronomers reported immediately that the satellites were far brighter than expected and were contaminating wide-field observations, and the visibility of the deployment train made the scale of the plan legible to the public in a way that a filing never had.
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