SpaceX successfully launches another 15 Starlink satellites
I hope this doesn’t bore you: SpaceX tonight successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to place another 15 Starlink satellites into orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The first stage completed its fifth flight, landing successfully on a drone ship in the Pacific. The two fairings each completed their sixth flight. As of posting the satellites have not yet deployed.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
54 SpaceX
31 China
10 Russia
6 Rocket Lab
6 India
American private enterprise still leads China in successful launches 62 to 31, and the entire world combined 62 to 52, while SpaceX by itself leads the world (excluding American companies) 54 to 52.
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I hope this doesn’t bore you: SpaceX tonight successfully used its Falcon 9 rocket to place another 15 Starlink satellites into orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The first stage completed its fifth flight, landing successfully on a drone ship in the Pacific. The two fairings each completed their sixth flight. As of posting the satellites have not yet deployed.
The leaders in the 2023 launch race:
54 SpaceX
31 China
10 Russia
6 Rocket Lab
6 India
American private enterprise still leads China in successful launches 62 to 31, and the entire world combined 62 to 52, while SpaceX by itself leads the world (excluding American companies) 54 to 52.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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This never gets boring, or old!
Bob, Please stop fabricating stories about SpaceX. Everyone knows Musk is a failed grifter who inherited a fortune from his apartheid era parents. He isn’t even an American!
Col Beausabre,
yowza, almost sent my coffee, up my nose, onto my keyboard.
->Afrikaner American?
It is the notion that the story MIGHT be boring that makes it so exciting.
We should never take anything for granted, but SpaceX should be commended for its ability to successfully conduct launches and for making the process seem “routine”.
I was able to see some of the second stage flight from the west side of Phoenix – an arcing diffuse cloud of moderate brightness. Watching the flight video at the same time, the onboard camera showed the sun appear at the limb of the earth, before receding again as the rocket travelled further southeast. This launch was an hour after Vandenberg’s sunset, so I’ll just have to wait for one set closer to it for a really nice show.
Bob, have any of the twilight Vandenberg launches been visible from Tucson?
@Col Beausabre – Rumour has it Musk is part Canadian! More evidence of the plot for Canada to take over the US. They clearly elected a strong leader in Trudeau.
->Afrikaner American? –
There’s reports of “enlightened” Americans referring to Blacks while visiting Europe as “European African Americans” – much to the amusement of the actual native Europeans. George Orwell would have been SO proud. Newspeak lives!