SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites
SpaceX yesterday evening successfully launched another 22 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California.
The first stage completed its tenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The leaders in the 2024 space race:
27 SpaceX
10 China
3 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 31 to 19, while SpaceX leads the entire world, including American companies, 27 to 23.
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SpaceX yesterday evening successfully launched another 22 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California.
The first stage completed its tenth flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
The leaders in the 2024 space race:
27 SpaceX
10 China
3 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 31 to 19, while SpaceX leads the entire world, including American companies, 27 to 23.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Saw a report suggesting 2 of the 23 satellites were StarShield satellites for the US Military, which is very interesting…
10 flights a month makes a nice pace.
3 a week would be better.
One every other day would be incredible.
Twenty-seven, and it isn’t even the end of March, so SpaceX is already on pace for more than 100 launches this year. 27 in 11 weeks is a rate of 127 per year. The pace keeps increasing.
By my math, they need an average of 2.9 launches per week for the rest of the year to reach their goal of 144 this year.
Edward: SpaceX’s goal is actually 150 launches this year. I think that adds in the Starship test launches to the Falcon 9/Heavy launches.
Robert Zimmerman
“Edward: SpaceX’s goal is actually 150 launches this year.”
That’s right. I forgot about the update. That means they need to average 3.0 launches per week to reach 150 by the end of the year.