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INTRODUCING: ARTEMIS III
Commander, Randy Bresnik ๐บ๐ธ
Pilot, Luca Parmitano ๐ฎ๐น
Mission Specialist 1, Frank Rubio ๐บ๐ธ
Mission Specialist 2, Andre Douglas ๐บ๐ธ
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It's been another year of mass-to-orbit domination by @SpaceX. Their Falcon family has launched approx. 1,500 metric tonnes to orbit of reported mass.
That's over 20x 2nd place worldwide. That's over 500x 2nd place in the US.
Full results are below the fold โ
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My Pre-launch Overlay Animation vs Our Actual Footage of Booster Landing.
I guessed the profile based on the SpaceX animation from months ago. Pretty dang proud of this.
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For context, since January 1st, @SpaceX has launched the same number of times (123) as:
@roscosmos since Nov 25, 2013
@ulalaunch since May 28, 2010
@Arianespace since May 14, 2009
Falcon has launched more this year than the Ariane 4 (116), Ariane 5 (117), & Atlas V (101), did
Starship has just claimed the world record for the biggest rocket ever built from... Starship. Which also claimed that record from.... Starship.
Has there ever been a rocket that's claimed its own record 3x over?
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Starship (Ship
BREAKING: @NASA's Steve Stich announces New Dragon Contingency:
New for Crew-8 and Crew-9, in the event of all 4 parachutes failing to deploy, SpaceX can use the SuperDracos launch abort system to perform a soft-splashdown.
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