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#SpaceX: The 16th launch and return of Falcon 9 booster. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

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#SpaceX: The 16th launch and return of Falcon 9 booster. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-22-starlink-satellites-using-a-first-stage-for-16th-time/

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A few days later, some people have calculated that the single booster has actually launched

2:09.5

more satellites than you are in its entire history. During those three years, Russia and

2:18.6

Europe launched a comparable number of rockets, but this is the first stage did max them.

2:26.5

This is all possible according to the rocket industry for 50 years. You can't reuse

2:32.5

the first stage. It's just not going to work in SpaceX is demonstrated on equimably

2:37.2

that that was what I was thinking and it helped people back by not thinking outside

2:43.6

about it.

2:44.6

What do we know now about other commercial or big space pursuing reusable? What is the

2:50.9

last thing that Russia was playing around with it? I don't remember the full list.

2:57.9

At this moment in time, I would say the only other company that's aggressively pursuing

3:03.8

and close to achieving some reusability on its first stage is Rocket Lab. They are in

3:10.7

the next launch I'm going to try to recover the first stage when it splice it down softly

3:15.7

on parachutes into the ocean. They've already done this a few times and have found that

3:20.3

their engines can be quickly refurbished tested and flown again. That's how they're going

3:25.8

to do it. Most of the entities that are trying to do this aggressively are in China. Europe

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