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
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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.
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“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.