SpaceX launches 23 Starlink with a 1st stage flying for a record-setting 18th time
SpaceX today successfully launched 23 Starlink, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral and using a first stage flying for a record-setting 18th time.
The first stage landed successfully on its drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
79 SpaceX
50 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 91 to 50 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 91 to 79. SpaceX by itself is once again tied the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 79 to 79.
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SpaceX today successfully launched 23 Starlink, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral and using a first stage flying for a record-setting 18th time.
The first stage landed successfully on its drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
79 SpaceX
50 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 91 to 50 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 91 to 79. SpaceX by itself is once again tied the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 79 to 79.
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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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As always, amazing stuff.
For the video linked above, you’ll want to watch the replay that begins around the 21:00 mark, cuz,’ as they note, the replays are always in higher quality. (Unfortunately, no less drop-outs, but cleaner.)
Worth also noting, as Eric Berger has, that the Cape has already set a record for number of launches in a year. We get two more months to see where the final number will end up!
“This mission was the 60th orbital launch attempt of the year overall—a tally that includes SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Relativity Space—from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or neighboring Kennedy Space Center, also a record. Last year saw 57 orbital launch attempts from Florida’s Space Coast.”
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/a-historic-falcon-9-is-about-to-make-a-little-more-history-tonight/
A great video here
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r1G3xg0-9KA
Shuttle Discovery: 39 flights.
Wouldn’t bet against SpaceX.