SpaceX launches twice today from different Florida launchpads
SpaceX today successfully launched twice. First a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, placing a South Korean communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The first stage completed its 23rd flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral.
Then, several hours later, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, placing 24 Starlink satellites in orbit. The first stage completed its 12th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
UPDATE: China also completed a launch earlier today, its Lijian-1 rocket lifting off from its “commercial” launchpad at its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China. No word on where the lower stages crashed inside China. The payload was fifteen satellites, including a remote-sensing satellite for Oman.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
112 SpaceX
51 China
13 Russia
12 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 130 to 76, while SpaceX by itself leads the entire world, including American companies, 112 to 94.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
SpaceX today successfully launched twice. First a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, placing a South Korean communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The first stage completed its 23rd flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral.
Then, several hours later, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, placing 24 Starlink satellites in orbit. The first stage completed its 12th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
UPDATE: China also completed a launch earlier today, its Lijian-1 rocket lifting off from its “commercial” launchpad at its Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China. No word on where the lower stages crashed inside China. The payload was fifteen satellites, including a remote-sensing satellite for Oman.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
112 SpaceX
51 China
13 Russia
12 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 130 to 76, while SpaceX by itself leads the entire world, including American companies, 112 to 94.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Readers: the rules for commenting!
No registration is required. I welcome all opinions, even those that strongly criticize my commentary.
However, name-calling and obscenities will not be tolerated. First time offenders who are new to the site will be warned. Second time offenders or first time offenders who have been here awhile will be suspended for a week. After that, I will ban you. Period.
Note also that first time commenters as well as any comment with more than one link will be placed in moderation for my approval. Be patient, I will get to it.