SpaceX launch boosts plan to create satellite internet

LOS ANGELES - SpaceX completed another launch of its Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday with the first two prototype satellites of its global broadband internet-in-space project, Starlink, successfully deployed in orbit.

"First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted.

The Falcon 9's first stage - the ninth previously flown booster to make a second flight - separated from the second stage about two minutes after liftoff.