The American Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) launched 28 new Starlink satellites into space today.

SpaceX said in a statement that the Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, carrying the broadband internet modules (Batch 10-28) and satellites into low Earth orbit.

The satellites arrived in space after about nine minutes and were deployed into orbit 50 minutes later.

Meanwhile, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket (Batch 1077) completed its 22nd flight to and from space, landing on an unmanned spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX’s Starlink network provides broadband internet service to areas around the world where other types of coverage are unavailable or disrupted.

It has also begun providing direct mobile phone connectivity, which SpaceX enabled to areas affected by flash floods in Texas.

The Starlink network currently comprises more than 7,000 active satellites, working together to provide high-speed internet coverage in most regions of the world, except for the poles, via ground-based receivers pointed toward the sky.