Rocket Lab successfully launches two more BlackSky Earth observation satellites
Capitalism in space: Rocket Lab today successfully launched from its launchpad in New Zealand two more satellite for the Earth observation company BlackSky, completing the launch only 21 days after their previous launch, tying the company’s fastest turnaround.
This was Rocket Lab’s fifth launch in 2021, which the company states will be its last this year. At the start of the year it had predicted it would complete this number, so the company has at least matched its expectations for 2021, despite governmental hold-ups in both New Zealand and Wallops Island that slowed the launch pace.
The leaders in the 2021 launch:
46 China
27 SpaceX
21 Russia
6 Europe (Arianespace)
5 ULA
5 Rocket Lab
China’s lead over the U.S. in the national rankings is now 46 to 44. SpaceX has a scheduled launch later tonight, so the race between the two countries should continue to tighten.
This was also the 120th successful launch in 2021, the most in a single year since 1984, and making it the ninth most active year in the history of space exploration.
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Capitalism in space: Rocket Lab today successfully launched from its launchpad in New Zealand two more satellite for the Earth observation company BlackSky, completing the launch only 21 days after their previous launch, tying the company’s fastest turnaround.
This was Rocket Lab’s fifth launch in 2021, which the company states will be its last this year. At the start of the year it had predicted it would complete this number, so the company has at least matched its expectations for 2021, despite governmental hold-ups in both New Zealand and Wallops Island that slowed the launch pace.
The leaders in the 2021 launch:
46 China
27 SpaceX
21 Russia
6 Europe (Arianespace)
5 ULA
5 Rocket Lab
China’s lead over the U.S. in the national rankings is now 46 to 44. SpaceX has a scheduled launch later tonight, so the race between the two countries should continue to tighten.
This was also the 120th successful launch in 2021, the most in a single year since 1984, and making it the ninth most active year in the history of space exploration.
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 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
Given what still remains on the manifests for December, it’s hard to see how 2021 won’t end up as a Top 5 year for orbital launches. Roscosmos and SpaceX each have three more launches, for starters.
Can a super smart, high IQ, BTB, space engineer / nerd, rocket scientist comment on this video?
https://twitter.com/ChillzTV/status/1468340361697402886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468340361697402886%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F12%2F08%2Fpilot-captures-footage-ufo-fleet%2F
Please explain what these are, who’s technology it is, and where they went.
Cotour–
I rarely click on twitter links, (especially with “ufo fleet” in the title) and I’m not a photo-interpretation analyst, but I know you’re sincere (for the most part!)
–>I’d want to know a whole lot more about the setting and the equipment used.
There’s nothing to scale anything, how fast is the guy going who took the video, is this a digital camera or film, is this being shot through a glass or plastic window, what is this guy’s speed, direction, and elevation, where is the sun and/or the moon, etc., etc.
Looks like lense-flashing of some sort (and I’m no photographer), unless he has a recorded radar-track on all of “them.”
I hear you, Wayne.
(I am always sincere, whether Im being sarcastic or not :)
I am serious, what is / are they, and who’s technology is it?
Looks like its an airliner at 30K + feet? The lights are at 20K feet?
“Thats some weird ‘Stuff”.
Cotour-
10,000 feet is 2 miles—I’m no pilot either, so I would defer to somebody with experience looking toward apparently bright objects 2 miles away.
–I’d also like to see the RAW video file, the version I downloaded from twitter was 540×540 and encoded in .mp4 format
My attitude on this stuff– try to avoid interjecting presuppositions.
(Ya know, if they are light flashes, there is no tech and there is no purpose.)
I would bet next weeks paycheck that it is a light aberration. The regularity of the ‘formation’, and the fact the they are at altitude, would seem to argue in favor.
Some super high IQ space nerds have commented:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4238103/aliens-may-have-visited-earth-nasa-report/
SPACE INVADERS Aliens may have already VISITED Earth, bombshell Nasa report reveals as Pentagon ramps up hunt for UFOs
Cotour–
Brian Keating: Into the Impossible
June, 2021
“Eric Weinstein & Michael Shermer: An honest dialogue about UFOs.”
https://youtu.be/vmgVy7-WCjc
1:49:25
NSF Live: Peter Beck talks Rocket Lab’s Neutron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNx4tpiyUAM