SpaceX completes second launch today, placing another 21 Starlink satellite into orbit
SpaceX this afternoon completed its second launch today, its Falcon 9 lifting off from Cape Canaveral and placing another 21 Starlink satellite into orbit.
The first stage completed its fourteenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic. This launch followed the Falcon Heavy launch in the early morning hours from Cape Canaveral.
The leaders in 2023 launch race:
73 SpaceX
45 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successfully launches 85 to 45, and the entire world combined 85 to 73. SpaceX by itself is now tied with the entire world combined (excluding American companies) 73 to 73.
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SpaceX this afternoon completed its second launch today, its Falcon 9 lifting off from Cape Canaveral and placing another 21 Starlink satellite into orbit.
The first stage completed its fourteenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic. This launch followed the Falcon Heavy launch in the early morning hours from Cape Canaveral.
The leaders in 2023 launch race:
73 SpaceX
45 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successfully launches 85 to 45, and the entire world combined 85 to 73. SpaceX by itself is now tied with the entire world combined (excluding American companies) 73 to 73.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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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The site for Project Kuiper (https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/project-kuiper) claims 77 contracted launches with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and ULA. Given the current launch capability of these partners, curious if Musk X’d Bezos: “Got an F9 departing next Tuesday at 1900. Need a lift?’
Blair Ivey: It is those launch contracts that has caused some Amazon shareholders to sue the company, saying it chose badly by excluding SpaceX.
It would be mistake to rely on just SpaceX, but to not even consider it suggests the company’s board is not providing the shareholders full value on their shares.