SpaceX completes two launches on Sunday
SpaceX yesterday successfully completed two Starlink satellite launches, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from opposite coasts.
First the company launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida, using a first stage flying its eighteenth time. That first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
Next less than five hours later the company launched another 22 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg in California, using a first first stage flying its ninth time. That first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The 2024 launch race:
9 SpaceX
6 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
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SpaceX yesterday successfully completed two Starlink satellite launches, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from opposite coasts.
First the company launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida, using a first stage flying its eighteenth time. That first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
Next less than five hours later the company launched another 22 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg in California, using a first first stage flying its ninth time. That first stage landed successfully on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The 2024 launch race:
9 SpaceX
6 China
2 Iran
1 India
1 ULA
1 Japan
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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Amusingly, with 9 launches, and Tuesdays likely launch, January will be a disappointing month for launches, as they only achieve 10 launches. Instead of the 12 or more they were expecting.
They had a down time week for SLC40 and the ASDS fleet for repairs and maintenance.
We live in a strange time. I love it.
Hehe. The Launch tracking API was deprecated, so spacexstats.xyz which I liked was basically shut down. (Author did not want to rewrite to new API).
Found this one:
https://www.spacexpolska.pl/stats
And its new lead dashboard, is % of the way to 144 launches. Currently at 6.25%. Need to get to 8.3% a month to hit the target,