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.
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
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.