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Ziezo.....Lancering 61 (EENENZESTIG) van 2022 is achter de kiezen ,waarbij vanop de Vandenberg basis (California) een Falcon 9 ,(voor de 11de keer dit exemplaar) gelanceerd werd met een Israelische Beeldverzamelingssatelliet met de gewaagde naam "EROS" als payload...
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/12/3...status-center/ |
Blijkbaar een record geëvenaard (USSR in 1980: 61 gelukte lanceringen/jaar R7- raket = vooral koude-oorlog-spionage-satellieten)
Met het groot verschil dat SpaceX een privaat bedrijf is, en sowieso de boosters nu gerecupereerd worden. En het gros zijn internet-sattelieten.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-tie...t-launch-2022/
SpaceX has tied a 42-year-old record with its 61st and final Falcon rocket launch of 2022.
In 1980, after two decades of gradual buildup, the Soviet Union managed to launch variants of its R-7 workhorse rocket 64 times in one calendar year. 61 of those launches were successful, setting a record that has been left unchallenged for decades. Only the R-7 family ever posed a threat to its own record, managing 55 successful launches in 1988, but its launch cadence – heavily driven by disposable Cold War reconnaissance satellites – plummeted with the fall of the Soviet Union and has never recovered.
Only in 2022, almost half a century later, has the R-7 family finally found a worthy challenger for its annual launch cadence record. That the challenger is a private company that had to legally force its way into parts of the US launch industry is arguably one of the deepest possible condemnations of the relative stagnancy US space launch capabilities experienced after the Apollo Program. But it also makes SpaceX’s achievement – accomplished with rockets that did not exist before the late 2000s – even more impressive.