SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites while setting a new reuse record for a Falcon 9 1st stage
SpaceX earlier today launched another 28 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The first stage completed its 30th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic. This is a new reuse record for a Falcon 9 first stage. At this moment only the space shuttles Discovery (39 flights) and Atlantis (33 flights) have flown more often.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
108 SpaceX
48 China
12 Rocket Lab
11 Russia
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 108 to 84.
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I don’t understand how liberals hate Elon
When one considers that today’s “liberals” – i.e. progressive marxists – hate the country and 80+% of its inhabitants – and counting – the fact that Elon is numbered among the multitudes they hate is unsurprising. But Elon, of course, gets extra hate points for being a self-made billionaire and for having backed Trump. Either of those, individually, would earn him a place in the ninth circle of “liberal” Hell.
Liberals hate accomplished individuals. The hive cannot tolerate the example of achieving outside the hive.
Rockribbed1,
Robert Zimmerman answered this one about twenty months ago:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-biden-war-against-musk-is-a-war-against-america/
The left ran even farther to the left, leaving Musk — and Trump — behind, closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. Both men, and a whole lot of other Democrats, have since become Republicans, because their new party reflects their beliefs (or feeling, depending) better than the current Democrat Party. Democrats have always been intolerant. Especially intolerant of those who do not agree with them in lockstep. For Democrats, anyone who does not agree with them deserves hatred — even other Democrats. To get along with Democrats, we have to not disagree with them, otherwise they get upset and may shun you forever.
Dumping you does not make them feel bad. Instead they feel good that they got rid of people that they feel are hateful, and good riddance to us. Then they pat each other on the back, reaffirming their virtue, that they are only intolerant of intolerance, and we the shunned were the intolerant ones — intolerant for not agreeing with them.
Don’t laugh. I have watched it happen, over the years, and it has happened to me.
And now it has very publicly happened to both Musk and Trump.