SpaceX last night launched another 23 Starlink satellites
The bunny is so fast I missed one: Last night, only a few hours after SpaceX launched two satellites for Maxar, out of Vandenberg in California, the company followed this with another launch of 23 Starlink satellites out of Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The first stage completed its 19th launch, landing successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leader board that I posted earlier today for the Chang’e-6 launch thus gave the wrong totals for SpaceX and the American launch industry. Below are the corrected numbers for the 2024 launch race:
46 SpaceX
18 China
6 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the world combined in successful launches, 53 to 30. SpaceX by itself still leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 46 to 37.
Hat tip to reader MDN to letting me know.
The bunny is so fast I missed one: Last night, only a few hours after SpaceX launched two satellites for Maxar, out of Vandenberg in California, the company followed this with another launch of 23 Starlink satellites out of Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The first stage completed its 19th launch, landing successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leader board that I posted earlier today for the Chang’e-6 launch thus gave the wrong totals for SpaceX and the American launch industry. Below are the corrected numbers for the 2024 launch race:
46 SpaceX
18 China
6 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the world combined in successful launches, 53 to 30. SpaceX by itself still leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 46 to 37.
Hat tip to reader MDN to letting me know.