SpaceX successfully launches 40 OneWeb satellites
SpaceX today used its Falcon 9 rocket to successfully launch 40 OneWeb satellites, joining with India to replace the launch services of Russia.
This was the first SpaceX launch for OneWeb. The first stage completed its fourth flight, landing back at SpaceX’s launchpad at Cape Canaveral. The fairings completed their fifth and sixth flights.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
55 China
55 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. nowl leads China 79 to 55 in the national rankings, though it still trails the entire world combined 86 to 79.
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SpaceX today used its Falcon 9 rocket to successfully launch 40 OneWeb satellites, joining with India to replace the launch services of Russia.
This was the first SpaceX launch for OneWeb. The first stage completed its fourth flight, landing back at SpaceX’s launchpad at Cape Canaveral. The fairings completed their fifth and sixth flights.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
55 China
55 SpaceX
21 Russia
9 Rocket Lab
8 ULA
The U.S. nowl leads China 79 to 55 in the national rankings, though it still trails the entire world combined 86 to 79.
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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
It is surprising how much shape matters when launching lots of small satelites. (Correct response is probably “duh”).
The flatpack Starlinks get 52-60 and max out the mass limit of the booster (15,000kg)
OneWeb (designed for Soyuz launcher) get 40 and max out the volume, at close to 1/3 the max mass. (6000kg)
It is one thing to know it, another to see it so clearly.
Good for everyone involved.
Less than one year after losing their ride they are able to pick up launch providers and have their product put in orbit. Capitalism in space made this possible.