Virgin Orbit puts seven Space Force smallsats in orbit
Capitalism in space: Virgin Orbit last night successfully launched seven smallsats for the Space Force, using its Cosmic Girl 747 carrier plane and its LauncherOne rocket.
This was the company’s first night time launch, and its second in 2022. The leader board for the 2022 launch race remains the same:
27 SpaceX
21 China
8 Russia
4 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 39 to 21 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 39 to 35.
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Capitalism in space: Virgin Orbit last night successfully launched seven smallsats for the Space Force, using its Cosmic Girl 747 carrier plane and its LauncherOne rocket.
This was the company’s first night time launch, and its second in 2022. The leader board for the 2022 launch race remains the same:
27 SpaceX
21 China
8 Russia
4 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. now leads China 39 to 21 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 39 to 35.
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
Bob, Forgive me if I’ve overlooked it on the site, but is there a good place to go to for a good overview of the state of capabilities of cube sats. Cube sats and the Mars helicopters have t here potential of expanding our exploration and gathering of knowledge about space and Mars more than any technology since the beginning of the space age.
Thanks
Gary: I have not written any overview of the capabilities of either cubesats or interplanetary helicopters. Do some web searches, there are plenty of good sources of info out there. Just don’t depend on one.
Excellent news. Now to just keep the level of launches up. This is going to be a great year for space.
Here are some tables
https://www.nanosats.eu/tables#constellations
https://catalog.orbitaltransports.com/platforms/
No worries. I don’t mean to treat you as a reporter taking assignments from an editor.
As to your suggestion, I found this about scientists in your neck of the woods.
Robert Zubrin posted this about a proposal for a sailplane for Mars.
https://www.leonarddavid.com/wings-over-mars-motorless-sailplane-proposed/