SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites
While everyone is focused on the Starship/Superheavy launch scheduled for tomorrow at 7 am (Central) at Boca Chica, SpaceX tonight launched another 23 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage successfully completed it eleventh flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
84 SpaceX
52 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise still leads China 96 to 52 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 96 to 81. SpaceX by itself is now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 84 to 81.
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While everyone is focused on the Starship/Superheavy launch scheduled for tomorrow at 7 am (Central) at Boca Chica, SpaceX tonight launched another 23 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage successfully completed it eleventh flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
84 SpaceX
52 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise still leads China 96 to 52 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 96 to 81. SpaceX by itself is now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 84 to 81.
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 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
Watched Starship. 156k viewers on X live. Booster ok. Hot staging ok. Second.stage ok. FTS ok on both.
I would call Starship test-2 a success.
So would I, pretty much. It will be interesting to see the “inside baseball” coverage soon as to the gory details of what went both right and wrong. Another test with upgraded hardware incorporating lessons learned from today’s test might still occur late this year or very early next.
I’m just a social-science major, but it looked pretty good to me.
Watched the Everyday Astronaut coverage live.
Now, I’m trying to find coverage with better film, anyone have any suggestions? (I realize it takes some time to put together.)
The LabPadre Space feed had some excellent clear/close-up, long-range tracking, but they as well were jumping all over the place.
(I don’t do “X,” so I really miss having the Spacex channel on Youtube.)
All: See my post on the launch. I am almost certain that both self-destructs were intentional, to prove to the regulators that the system now works as planned.
SpaceX can do this because it has more prototypes waiting, and by doing so it will make it harder for the bureaucrats to slow things down.
Wayne, I watched it (Starship/SH) on the SpaceX website