SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites
In what is turning into routine clockwork, SpaceX tonight completed its fourth launch in only the first ten days of August, placing 22 Starlink satellites into orbit using its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage completed its ninth flight, landing safely on a drone ship in the Atlantic. The two fairings completed their tenth and eleventh flights respectively. At the time of posting the satellites themselves had not yet been deployed.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
55 SpaceX
33 China
11 Russia
6 Rocket Lab
6 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successful launches 63 to 33, and the entire world combined 63 to 55. SpaceX by itself is now tied with the entire world (excluding American companies) 55 to 55.
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In what is turning into routine clockwork, SpaceX tonight completed its fourth launch in only the first ten days of August, placing 22 Starlink satellites into orbit using its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage completed its ninth flight, landing safely on a drone ship in the Atlantic. The two fairings completed their tenth and eleventh flights respectively. At the time of posting the satellites themselves had not yet been deployed.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
55 SpaceX
33 China
11 Russia
6 Rocket Lab
6 India
American private enterprise now leads China in successful launches 63 to 33, and the entire world combined 63 to 55. SpaceX by itself is now tied with the entire world (excluding American companies) 55 to 55.
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
Amazing that it took until the eighth month of the year for SpaceX to even be tied by the rest of the world. And even get ahead for a few hours yesterday. Reading occasional complaints about SpaceX monopoly should read more about the competition not doing their job. The legacy companies and the ones they acquired had over 4 decades experience before SpaceX was founded, and a half century experience before Falcon9 flight one.
John Hare: Actually, SpaceX has been ahead of the rest of the world for most of the time for the last several months. In fact, the tie on this date is the exception, not the rule. For most of the last two months SpaceX has led.
It shows you just how rare Elon is.
Investors run from aerospace due to up-front costs…and most independently rich don’t care for aerospace…or have Elon’s engineering chops.
Outside of him, other start-ups just get told seven different kinds of “no.”
Just ask Gary Hudson.
For years, I have heard folks rail against airlines.
Then all I heard was the market will solve this, etc.
Read the book FREE FLIGHT about what happened to Vern Rayburn and the VLJ/air taxi model.
The large drones look to renew this idea.
We will see.
Computer start-ups just need code monkeys…pizzas…and Funko pops.
I imagine an aviation start up who used a venture capitalist’s money to get tooling, an engineer…and hanger space having this conversation with the VC on his visit:
“Where’s my airplane?”
What do you mean ‘where’s my airplane?’
“What went with all that money?”
Here it is–
“I don’t see anything but jigs and empty hanger space! I’m pulling the plug.”
Lots of little Jack Welsh’s for every big one.