SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites
SpaceX today successfully launched 23 more Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage successfully completed its eighth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
78 SpaceX
48 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 90 to 48 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 90 to 77. SpaceX by itself now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 78 to 77.
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SpaceX today successfully launched 23 more Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage successfully completed its eighth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
78 SpaceX
48 China
14 Russia
7 Rocket Lab
7 India
American private enterprise now leads China 90 to 48 in successful launches, and the entire world combined 90 to 77. SpaceX by itself now leads the rest of the world (excluding American companies) 78 to 77.
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
And now I hear Elon is allowing Starlink in Gaza..
He wants to allow it.
Basically he is willing to sell the service to recognized NGO’s for limited communication. Like Doctors Without Boarders.
But we all know this could be abused by the bad guys very easy.
Though he would know this and might have the ability to monitor all the traffic on his system and let Israel have full access so they glean anything for intelligence.
I am sure Israel could stop ask him not to. And there is a way to stop the system temporarily from an external source.
Musk said that SpaceX would be willing to provide Starlink to internationally recognized aid organizations and that it would be coordinated with the Israeli and US governments.
Saying “Elon is allowing Starlink in Gaza” is misleading. The agitating journos in my nat’l MSM claimed the same (even going so far implying he’s supporting Hamas). It’s bordering on slander — just another hit piece on Musk.