SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellites
Capitalism in space: SpaceX this morning successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to send another 53 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The first stage completed its fifth mission, landing on the drone ship.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
21 SpaceX
15 China
6 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 29 to 15 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 29 to 24.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX this morning successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to send another 53 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The first stage completed its fifth mission, landing on the drone ship.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
21 SpaceX
15 China
6 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
2 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 29 to 15 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 29 to 24.
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
This booster was interesting, B1052, since its first two flights were as Falcon Heavy side booster. Then three launches as standalone Falcon 9.
And it apparently slated to be turned back into a F-H side core for a launch this summer in August with its old buddy side booster that was never changed.
This does seem to suggest that the side cores are pretty much regular Falcon 9’s with minimal changes.
I get the impression there is little difference between side boosters, core boosters and stand alone F9s.
The flight profiles may be slightly different, but I am thinking that is managed with software.
Do we have data for “total mass to orbit” in addition to the launch count? Always wondered who was actually putting more stuff into space.
How about this site for tracking mass to orbit, at least for SpaceX…
Over 1.2 million kilos by SpaceX so far.
https://rocketstats.app/falcon9