SpaceX and Arianespace complete successful launches
Today, as I was giving my lecture in Denver, both Arianespace and SpaceX successfully completed launches.
SpaceX put a commercial communications satellite in orbit. The first stage was not recovered, but this was intended. The company however was successful in catching one half fairing in the giant net of its recovery ship Mrs. Tree., the second time they have done so.
Arianespace used its Ariane 5 rocket to launch a commercial communications satellite and a European Space Agency data relay satellite.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race:
12 Russia
11 China
10 SpaceX
6 Europe (Arianespace)
4 India
The U.S. now leads Russia 16 to 12 in the national rankings.
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
Today, as I was giving my lecture in Denver, both Arianespace and SpaceX successfully completed launches.
SpaceX put a commercial communications satellite in orbit. The first stage was not recovered, but this was intended. The company however was successful in catching one half fairing in the giant net of its recovery ship Mrs. Tree., the second time they have done so.
Arianespace used its Ariane 5 rocket to launch a commercial communications satellite and a European Space Agency data relay satellite.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race:
12 Russia
11 China
10 SpaceX
6 Europe (Arianespace)
4 India
The U.S. now leads Russia 16 to 12 in the national rankings.
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
A better comparison might be Big Space to Big Space. Roscosmos 12, ULA + NGIS (Old ATK) 3
I’d argue that SpaceX (10) and Rocket Lab (3) are their own category of Commercial (Private) Space
Well technically, it’s Ms. Tree pronounced Mystery.
I am hoping that SpaceX can find Mr Tree, so that Ms Tree and Mr Tree can get together and catch fairings as a team.
(Ms Tree is Mr Steven renamed after ownership was transferred to the company that runs all of SpaceX current fleet).