SpaceX successfully launches 40 smallsats into orbitCapitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch 40 smallsats into orbit.
The first stage successfully landed on a drone ship, completing its seventh flight.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
12 SpaceX
8 China
4 Russia
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 18 to 8 in the national rankings.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch 40 smallsats into orbit.
The first stage successfully landed on a drone ship, completing its seventh flight.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
12 SpaceX
8 China
4 Russia
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 18 to 8 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 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
I was not sure if they would launch, with the solar activity the past few days. Same for the Rocketlab launch.
After they had the debacle with starlink launch that got wiped out.
Granted these sats probably have enough power to overcome the solar pressure.
I think the Starlink launches are quite a special case with regard to risk from solar activity. The Starlink birds uniquely spend a long time (days/weeks) in a very low orbit as they climb their way out. Ordinary launches like Transporter 4 and Rocket Lab-next are headed to 500 km-ish orbits right from the start (and don’t subsequently maneuver very much), so the few minutes they spend at sub-300 km represent negligible risk from elevated solar activity. Density is exponential in height, so fades very rapidly.