Washington, July 05 (QNA) - The US SpaceX successfully launched 29 new Starlink satellites designed for satellite internet services on Sunday.

The mission underscores a unique technological development, with the Falcon 9 rocket carrying, for the first time, experimental platforms to manufacture electronic chips and semiconductors in a microgravity environment, operated by Besxar Space Industries.

In a statement, the company announced that the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, heading into orbit to deploy its payload.

The rocket carried a batch of satellites intended to expand global coverage of the satellite internet network. The payload also included two experimental prototype manufacturing capsules, known as "Fabships", integrated into the rocket's first-stage booster to study advanced manufacturing technologies.

The experiment involves keeping the manufacturing platforms attached to the booster during its flight to briefly experience the vacuum of space, in order to leverage the ultra-clean environment of outer space to produce a new generation of high-efficiency, defect-free semiconductors.

This is part of an extended agreement covering 12 sequential test flights to develop orbital manufacturing technologies.

The firm added that this launch marks SpaceX's 62nd Starlink deployment mission of the year, as part of its ongoing effort to expand space-based internet services.

The 29 Starlink mini-satellites (v2) are scheduled to be deployed from the rocket's second stage one hour, three minutes, and 31 seconds after liftoff.

Starlink is a satellite internet service provided by SpaceX, aimed at delivering high-speed internet worldwide through a network of thousands of small satellites in low Earth orbit. (QNA)