Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches 1st ‘Direct-to-Cell’ Starlink Satellites With T-Mobile

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is launched with a batch of 53 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 17, 2022. SpaceX via AP/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Jan. 2 launched its first Starlink satellites capable of providing mobile phone service to customers of T-Mobile and a string of other carriers, even in remote locations.

SpaceX stated that it launched a total of 21 satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.