SpaceX added 23 more satellites to its Starlink internet constellation on Saturday night (Dec. 2).

週六晚間（12 月 2 日），SpaceX 為其 Starlink 互聯網星座添加了 23 顆衛星。

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the communications satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on Dec. 3). 

載有通訊衛星的 SpaceX 獵鷹 9 號火箭於晚上 11 點從佛羅裡達州卡納維爾角太空部隊站升空。美國東部時間（格林尼治標準時間 12 月 3 日 0400）。

The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch. It touched down on the droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.

獵鷹 9 號的第一級在發射後約 8.5 分鐘返回地球並垂直著陸。它降落在停泊在佛羅裡達州海岸附近大西洋上的“A Shortfall of Gravitas”無人機上。

It was the sixth launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description.  

根據 SpaceX 的任務描述，這是該特殊助推器的第六次發射和著陸。

The 23 Starlink satellites, meanwhile, were scheduled to deploy from the Falcon 9's upper stage into low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65.5 minutes after liftoff.

同時，23 顆星鏈衛星計畫在升空後約 65.5 分鐘從獵鷹 9 號的上級部署到近地軌道 (LEO)。

The Starlink network, which beams internet service down to people around the world, already features more than 5,000 operational spacecraft, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.

天文物理學家兼衛星追蹤器 Jonathan McDowell 表示，向世界各地的人們提供網路服務的星鍊網路已經擁有 5,000 多艘正在運行的太空船。

But that number keeps growing, and likely will far into the future. SpaceX already has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink craft into LEO, and it has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that.

但這個數字仍在不斷成長，而且很可能在遙遠的未來還會持續成長。 SpaceX 已獲准在近地軌道上部署 12,000 艘星鏈飛船，並已申請批准在此基礎上再部署 30,000 艘。