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

周六晚（12 月 2 日），SpaceX 为其 Starlink 互联网星座添加了 23 颗卫星。

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). 

载有通信卫星的 SpaceX 猎鹰 9 号火箭于晚上 11:00 从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空部队站升空。美国东部时间（格林尼治标准时间 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.

猎鹰 9 号的第一级在发射后约 8.5 分钟返回地球并垂直着陆。它降落在停泊在佛罗里达州海岸附近大西洋上的“A Shortfall of Gravitas”无人机上。

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

根据 SpaceX 的任务描述，这是该特殊助推器的第六次发射和着陆。

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.

与此同时，23 颗星链卫星计划在升空后约 65.5 分钟从猎鹰 9 号的上级部署到近地轨道 (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.

天体物理学家兼卫星跟踪器乔纳森·麦克道尔 (Jonathan McDowell) 表示，向世界各地的人们提供互联网服务的星链网络已经拥有 5,000 多艘正在运行的航天器。

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.

但这个数字仍在不断增长，而且很可能在遥远的未来还会持续增长。 SpaceX 已获准在近地轨道部署 12,000 艘星链飞船，并已申请批准在此基础上再部署 30,000 艘。