Bandwagon-1 – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:24:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 SpaceX launches 11 commercial payloads https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-11-commercial-payloads/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-11-commercial-payloads/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2024 01:00:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104156 SpaceX today successfully launched 11 commercial payloads into orbit, as the first of what it calls its Bandwagon series, designed to provide launch ssatellites to medium inclination Earth orbits. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, its first stage completing its fourteenth flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral.

The leaders in the 2024 launch race:

36 SpaceX
14 China
5 Russia
4 Rocket Lab

American private enterprise now leads the rest of the world combined 41 to 25, while SpaceX by itself leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 36 to 30.

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