On Thursday, SpaceX launched 53 additional Starlink broadband satellites from Cape Canaveral at 9:11 a.m. EDT (13:11 GMT).

The Falcon 9 rocket's reusable first stage landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean to complete its thirteenth space mission.

The Falcon 9 launched the flat-packed broadband relay stations into an orbit with an altitude of between 144 miles and 209 miles from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 

The Falcon 9's upper stage released the 53 flat-packed satellites around 15 minutes after liftoff.

The launch was the first of at least five Falcon 9 missions that SpaceX has scheduled for July. 

A Dragon cargo flight to the International Space Station and three more Starlink deployment flights are planned for later this month.

SpaceX has now launched 2,759 Starlink broadband satellites, including old prototypes and test models, with the launch on Thursday. 

The 49th SpaceX mission, the majority of which were used to place broadband satellites for Starlink into orbit, was carried out on Thursday.

SpaceX's launch team began cramming liquid oxygen and densified kerosene propellants into the 229-foot (70-meter) tall Falcon 9 vehicle at T-minus 35 minutes. 

In a firing chamber at a launch control facility south of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, they were positioned.

The 1.7 million pounds of thrust from the nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 rocket were vectored over the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast after liftoff.

The rocket stage was also used to launch SpaceX's Transporter 1 and Transporter 3 small satellite rideshare operations, as well as seven previous Starlink missions. 

The most recent launch of the booster took place on May 6 with the Starlink 4-17 mission.

Each Falcon 9 first stage's design life was originally planned to be 10 launches, but SpaceX has certified the rockets for at least 15 flights.

The Starlink satellites will be housed in one of the five orbiting "shells" that make up SpaceX's global internet network. 

Once the satellites are in their operational orbit, they will begin transmitting broadband signals to users.

Customers can purchase Starlink service and use a ground terminal that SpaceX will supply to connect to the network.