This is CBS Islanderworld. I'm John Bachel from the surface of the planet Earth. We're

headed to Earth orbit. Star, Link, and SpaceX. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the

website behind the black. Star Link is a proprietary company started by SpaceX now independent

and it has some, I believe, 100 million, some huge number of customers. I'm one of them.

It's extremely useful in a storm in New England. Very useful. When the power goes down or

there's questions of the hard line internet, and if you must have it, you have Star Link.

Bob, there's more good news from SpaceX. What is it?

Yes. Late last week, it's basically completed. It's the 70th launch of 2023. It put up another

22 Star Link satellites. They've got something like, so, 1500 operating satellites in orbit

right now. Something like that. A number of fluctuates. It's a great deal because new satellites

go up. Old satellites fall to the ground. You know, fall to the ground. Some are operating

satellites, some are not. But it's about 1500 and they have something more than a million

customers in the stand right now, including you, John. What made this launch so significant

is they do this now, like, and they're doing 10 to 11 launches a month. So it's not the

launch itself. That's the news. What's the news? The number. 70th launch in 2023. That's

in, just a little over three quarters of the years, SpaceX has completed 70 launches. And

it gives some context and a bigger look to that number, perhaps from history. In 1966, during

the height of the space race, the United States completed 70 launches in that year, that whole

year. And that number, and 70 launches in 1966, was the record for the most launches

in the United States completed in a full year until last year when that number was finally

superseded. SpaceX this year has now matched that number in less than, in just over three

quarters of a year, which means that goal of reaching 100 launches this year is not out

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