Comments on: SpaceX launches another 27 Starlink satellites https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-another-27-starlink-satellites/ Sun, 25 May 2025 01:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-another-27-starlink-satellites/#comment-1589374 Sun, 25 May 2025 01:19:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114289#comment-1589374 Yeah. Ho hum, another SpaceX Falcon launch with Starlinks aboard. Must be a day with a name ending in ‘y.’ I suspect the corporate space press will likely also fail to mention SpaceX’s 500th successful F9 booster landing when it occurs – if current cadence continues – in 90 days or so. Or the one thousandth when that happens in early 2028. And once Starship hits its stride, of course, there will be even more such milestones to ignore and at more frequent intervals. Oh well, the NYT doesn’t report train arrivals and departures at Penn Station or flights to and from JFK either. Unremarked routine is just one of the indicia of success. The more that space stories become dog-bites-man affairs, the better.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-another-27-starlink-satellites/#comment-1589371 Sun, 25 May 2025 00:24:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114289#comment-1589371 According to SpaceFlightNow, this mission also had the distinction of being the SpaceX’s 450th successful booster landing.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-west-coast-falcon-9-with-starlink-satellites/

The real achievement for SpaceX is that, like the Dragon flights you talked about yesterday, this is now such a ho-hum achievement that little of the news treatment of this mission even mentions this milestone.

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