SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg
SpaceX early this morning successfully launched another 21 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California shortly after midnight.
The first stage successfully completed its sixth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
68 SpaceX
43 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successful launches 79 to 43, and the entire world combined 79 to 69. SpaceX by itself now trails the rest of the world combined (excluding American companies) by only 68 to 69.
Hat tip to BtB’s stringer Jay. I had missed this launch last night, until he reminded me of it.
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SpaceX early this morning successfully launched another 21 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California shortly after midnight.
The first stage successfully completed its sixth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
68 SpaceX
43 China
13 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successful launches 79 to 43, and the entire world combined 79 to 69. SpaceX by itself now trails the rest of the world combined (excluding American companies) by only 68 to 69.
Hat tip to BtB’s stringer Jay. I had missed this launch last night, until he reminded me of it.
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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“Vandenberg in California … drone ship in the Atlantic”
Ummmm . . .
Boca Chica on Gulf Coast
Call Me Ishmael: Fixed. Thank you. As I’ve said before, my fingers no longer communicate as well as they used to with my brain.
” my fingers no longer communicate as well as they used to with my brain.”
Known to friends in Denmark as “Error 40”, the distance in centimeters between brain and hand.
Read a huge article in the local Librag about the return of the Bennu capsule, and it repeated the “parachute opened early and that’s why it landed early” thing.
I can’t understand how anyone could unquestioningly publish that.
Ray Van Dune: The same modern media outlets have also claimed this was the first recovery of samples from an asteroid, which of course completely shows they know nothing about Japan and the Hayabusa-2, and did not bother to do two nanoseconds of research.