Elon Musk's SpaceX Launches 100th Rocket

100 Successful Launches in 12 Years
Nearly 900 Internet Communication Satellites Launched

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[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] Electric vehicle company Tesla CEO Elon Musk's private space development company SpaceX has succeeded in launching its 100th rocket.

According to U.S. media on the 25th (local time), SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on the 24th (local time), achieving the milestone of 100 rocket launches.

This marks 12 years since the first successful rocket launch in September 2008.

Through this rocket launch, SpaceX has successfully placed a total of 895 Starlink communication satellites into Earth's orbit.

Starlink is a project to launch 12,000 low Earth orbit small satellites by the mid-2020s to establish a high-speed internet service accessible worldwide.