SpaceX launches oceanography satellite
SpaceX early this morning used its Falcon 9 rocket to successfully launch an oceanography satellite, dubbed SWOT, for both NASA and France’s space agency CNES.
The satellite it designed to measure the height of water on 90% of the Earth’s surface.
The first stage was making its sixth flight, and successfully returned to Earth, touching down on its landing pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
59 China
57 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 81 to 59 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 91 to 81.
These numbers however should change again later today, as SpaceX has another launch scheduled.
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SpaceX early this morning used its Falcon 9 rocket to successfully launch an oceanography satellite, dubbed SWOT, for both NASA and France’s space agency CNES.
The satellite it designed to measure the height of water on 90% of the Earth’s surface.
The first stage was making its sixth flight, and successfully returned to Earth, touching down on its landing pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
59 China
57 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 81 to 59 in the national rankings, but trails the entire world combined 91 to 81.
These numbers however should change again later today, as SpaceX has another launch scheduled.
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
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