SpaceX launches 90 payloads on its ninth smallsat Transporter mission
SpaceX today successfully launched 90 payloads on its ninth smallsat Transporter mission, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California.
From the link: “There will be 90 payloads on this flight deployed by Falcon 9, including CubeSats, MicroSats, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying an additional 23 spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.”
The first stage completed its twelth flight, landing back at Vandenberg.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
82 SpaceX
51 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 94 to 51 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 94 to 80. SpaceX by itself is now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 82 to 80.
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SpaceX today successfully launched 90 payloads on its ninth smallsat Transporter mission, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California.
From the link: “There will be 90 payloads on this flight deployed by Falcon 9, including CubeSats, MicroSats, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying an additional 23 spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.”
The first stage completed its twelth flight, landing back at Vandenberg.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
82 SpaceX
51 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 94 to 51 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 94 to 80. SpaceX by itself is now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 82 to 80.
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Hello? Any one out there?
Yeh I know. Another successful Space X launch.
This is not even worth us commenting any more.
i personally love it but I am sure the haters are gonna hate.
I agree. Even the live streams are becoming hard to find. And of course no more narration. So yes, and if what Space X plans, next year will be more like watching planes take off at LAX.
I watched a replay (missed the live launch) via Tim Dodd’s “Everyday Astronaut” channel and was surprised to hear the familiar SpaceX narration.
https://youtu.be/dcHM3IdDufg?t=1547
I assume since it was a mid-day launch from Vandenberg, the west coast folks were awake. 8^)
Some scuttlebutt about IVs and Adderall out there…
No more Kate Tice? What a shame, and not just because she is beautiful, but because she is smart and a real engineer.
At +00:02:30 here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FF3LAnvVcJA
—you see the best second stage separation footage ever in that you can see the first stage move away—at last.