SpaceX successfully launches 60 Starlink satellites
Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 60 more satellites in its Starlink internet satellites, while also reusing for the first time a Falcon first stage for a fourth time, reusing a fairing for the first time. The first stage successfully completed a barge landing. No word on whether they were able to recover the fairings.
I have embedded the replay of the live stream below the fold. They now have proved the capability of recovering and reusing 70% of their rocket.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race:
22 China
17 Russia
11 SpaceX
6 Europe (Arianespace)
The U.S. now leads China 23 to 22 in the national rankings.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 60 more satellites in its Starlink internet satellites, while also reusing for the first time a Falcon first stage for a fourth time, reusing a fairing for the first time. The first stage successfully completed a barge landing. No word on whether they were able to recover the fairings.
I have embedded the replay of the live stream below the fold. They now have proved the capability of recovering and reusing 70% of their rocket.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race:
22 China
17 Russia
11 SpaceX
6 Europe (Arianespace)
The U.S. now leads China 23 to 22 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 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
Watching those landings never gets old!
50 successful launches on the run….. Superb!!
And with just 2 launches, SpaceX now has the largest satellite constellation now working.
It’s my understanding from other forums that the seas were too rough to attempt to recover the fairings and the ships were called back to port. This was to prevent damage to the arms that support the nets, rather than risk a costly repair. It would be cool to see SpaceX re-use fairings that are fished out of the sea as they should be better able to assess and absorb the risk of re-using them with their own launches. I wouldn’t be surprised to seem such an attempt in the future.