SpaceX completes 31st launch in 2022, matching its entire output in 2021
Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites with its Falcon 9 rocket, completing its 31st launch in 2022, matching the company’s entire output for all 2021 in only a little more than six months.
The first stage completed its 13th mission.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
31 Space
23 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
American private enterprise now leads China 44 to 23 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 44 to 39.
SpaceX is targeting 60 launches in 2022. With the year just a little more than half over, it is setting a pace capable of achieving that goal.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites with its Falcon 9 rocket, completing its 31st launch in 2022, matching the company’s entire output for all 2021 in only a little more than six months.
The first stage completed its 13th mission.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
31 Space
23 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
American private enterprise now leads China 44 to 23 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 44 to 39.
SpaceX is targeting 60 launches in 2022. With the year just a little more than half over, it is setting a pace capable of achieving that goal.
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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Good Sir…
Minor typo?
“American private enterprise now leads China 44 to 31…”
Thank you sippin_bourbon. Fixed.
By my recollection this is the third Falcon 9 booster to complete 13 launch and landings. Nobody else has done even one of an orbital class rocket, and nobody else is even working on developing the capability, other than perhaps at the intentional / conceptual level! Amazing.
I watched this with my 3 year old today. He thought the launch and view of space was cool but he thought the landing was boring.
“Daddy after it lands, do you have to wait for the seatbelt sign to turn off before you can get up? What if you have to go potty?”
It is really good to see these landings so routine that they are starting to get boring
Ray,
China is making a blatant knockoff of the Falcon-9 called the Nebula-1 under the “company” name DeepBlue. Recently they completed their 20th design of a reusable engine called the Thunder R-1. Take a look at their design online, it also uses nine of these Thunder R-1 engines, and they want to do their first test by the end of 2023.
Ray, RocketLab is developing Neutron, from the ground up, as re-usable, as well as converting electron for re-use.
Neutron is rather interesting as it has several ideas not tried before, with some “out of the box” thinking going into the design.
I am really wanting to see if they can make it work, or if they will have to revert to more conventional design.
Still no OTRAG or Sea Dragon though. Pressure feds get no love.