SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites
After a number of weather delays, SpaceX this morning finally launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, using its Falcon 9 rocket.
They also successfully landed the 1st stage, on its third flight, the 61st time they have done this. One fairing half was also making its third flight, and was also recovered. I have embedded the live stream of the launch below the fold.
The leaders in the 2020 launch race:
25 China
16 SpaceX
10 Russia
4 ULA
4 Europe (Arianespace)
The U.S. has retaken the lead from China, 26 to 25, in the national rankings.
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After a number of weather delays, SpaceX this morning finally launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, using its Falcon 9 rocket.
They also successfully landed the 1st stage, on its third flight, the 61st time they have done this. One fairing half was also making its third flight, and was also recovered. I have embedded the live stream of the launch below the fold.
The leaders in the 2020 launch race:
25 China
16 SpaceX
10 Russia
4 ULA
4 Europe (Arianespace)
The U.S. has retaken the lead from China, 26 to 25, in the national rankings.
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
Finally a success!
Interesting that this is a 3rd flight for this booster.
Where as the GPSIII payload rocket is a 1st time use, and having issues.
They reported an “out of family” sensor issue.
I found contradictory explainations.
Out of family, meaning, out of a specific group of sensors?
Or
Out of family means it is reading outside of expected norms/standards?
Anyone?
I would never want to fly on a spacecraft that hasn’t flown and landed successfully, but maybe that is just me.
sippin_bourbon,
This may help:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/a7blpx/spacex_on_twitter_spacex_team_called_a_hold_due/
Thanks