Gonna be hard for anyone to compete against that.
SpaceX has set a rocket re-use record for launch-turnaround by sending a Falcon 9 up twice within nine days early Friday morning. The previous record was 14 days.
The rocket launched at 2:49 a.m. EDT Friday form Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission was for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Friday's Falcon 9 launch was the 450th for Falcon 9 rockets.
Compete? I don't know of any company that has even attempted to refly its rockets, to say nothing about launching a paying customers' $250M satellite on one.
ReplyDeleteBlue Origin was first to land a booster (New Shepard), and it has reflown some New Shepard boosters at least 15 times, but they’ve all been suborbital flights sometimes carrying tourists, while SpaceX’s Falcon9 flies orbital missions carrying 80% of the world’s space payload and half of all astronauts.
ReplyDeleteNew Glenn is supposed to compete with F9, but whether it will remains to be seen.
No more. Bozos is too busy now showing off the new breasts he bought for his girlfriend.
DeleteWell, they are very nice. Immortalized too, on the figurehead of his mega yacht... but I think the teak teats are softer.
DeleteSuggestion to all the lefties demonstrating against Musk discovering their corruption: next launch, gather in groups of one thousand, right under the Falcon9.
ReplyDeleteTHAT will get attention!
having grown up through Sputnik, Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, I can only say, "You rock, Elon! Awesome!!"
ReplyDeleteSpace X are a bunch of steely eyed missile men.
ReplyDeleteNot only do they land their boosters for re-use, they pluck them out of the air.
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