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.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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 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!