Falcon 9 launches cargo Dragon to ISS
Capitalism in space: SpaceX tonight successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Dragon freighter to ISS, with docking expected on July 16 at 11:20 am (Eastern).
The first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic, completing its fifth flight. The cargo Dragon is flying its third flight to the station.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
30 SpaceX
22 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 43 to 22 in the national rankings, and the entire globe combined 43 to 38.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX tonight successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Dragon freighter to ISS, with docking expected on July 16 at 11:20 am (Eastern).
The first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic, completing its fifth flight. The cargo Dragon is flying its third flight to the station.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
30 SpaceX
22 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 43 to 22 in the national rankings, and the entire globe combined 43 to 38.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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When was the last time SpaceX didn’t nail the landing? … I can’t remember the timeline since the last one toppled over.
They blew up a lot of first stages getting there, but how wonderful it is now the norm.. 20 years ago the very concept of reusing first stages 5-10+ times would be laughed at.
Yes, the tech is being copied, or stolen by other space agencies, but they have to… SpaceX is blowing the rest of the world out of the park… And this pushes the whole of humanity forward into space… Nothing wrong there!