SpaceX successfully launches another 60 Starlink satellites
Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, using its Falcon 9 rocket.
This raises the number of Starlink satellites to more than 1,600. The first stage also landed safely, completing its ninth flight.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
13 SpaceX
11 China
7 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 18 to 11 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
Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, using its Falcon 9 rocket.
This raises the number of Starlink satellites to more than 1,600. The first stage also landed safely, completing its ninth flight.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
13 SpaceX
11 China
7 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 18 to 11 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
And Starlink 27 is tentatively set for May 9th, 5 days later, using core B1051 on its tenth flight.
Woo Hoo!
B1049 just landed for the 9th time (and dead center on the target)!
How long before they’ll just pump in a 1/4 tank of gas and fly it low and slow (for rocket travel) back to the Cape on 3 or less engines?
Save a few days of tug expenses.
A penny saved is a penny earned ;-)