SpaceX completes two launches today
SpaceX successfully completed two Starlink launches today.
First, it placed 26 Starlink satellites into orbit, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California. The first stage completed its fourteenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
Next, it launched another 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Falcon 9 first stage completed its eleventh flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
55 SpaceX
23 China
5 Rocket Lab
5 Russia
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 55 to 40.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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.
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"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
SpaceX successfully completed two Starlink launches today.
First, it placed 26 Starlink satellites into orbit, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California. The first stage completed its fourteenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
Next, it launched another 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Falcon 9 first stage completed its eleventh flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
55 SpaceX
23 China
5 Rocket Lab
5 Russia
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 55 to 40.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Oh come on someone must be excited about this. Its two launches in one day from one company.
” Its two launches in one day from one company.”
For one who grew up with the Space Age; an astonishing feat, but these days, not so much a feat, ss business as usual. The extraordinary becoming the mundane is Progress; the mundane as extraordinary is Magic, per Arthur C.
I am a bit worried with the recent static test of Starship…it seems to want to throw a nozzle like a horse can throw a shoe:)
Folks talk trash about buggy whip makers—but here is where old knowledge can make a comeback.
As engines have gotten more powerful, engineers and their products are increasingly separated…less physical interaction due to heat and especially hostile acoustics.
This might be where a Teslabot may be most helpful—as a Waldo.
One thing I might like to do via telepresence is simply to use a robot as a proxy where I could “feel” what’s going on.
NASCAR drivers have a good sensor—they’re backsides.
A good driver and/or mechanic can feel when something is amiss—I’d like for robot proxies t bring that back if possible.
pzatchok wrote: “Its two launches in one day from one company.”
I’m not sure that this is a first for SpaceX:
April 12: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-two-launches-today/
March 15: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/four-more-launches-two-by-spacex-following-manned-launch/
January 10: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-two-launches-reusing-first-stage-a-record-number-of-times/