28.09.2008 wystartował Falcon 1.
Z perspektywy 15. lat widać, jak wydarzenie to zrewolucjonizowało branżę rakietową.
Przyszłość także zapowiada się rozwojowo.
Krótka statystyka startów rakiet kosmicznych we wrześniu 20085 organizacji i firm dokonało wtedy 8. startów orbitalnych.
RosjaSojuz-U Bajkonur 1/PU-5 (Progress M-65)
Proton-M/Briz-M Bajkonur 200/PU-39
Proton-M/DM-2 Bajkonur 81/PU-24
Chiny CZ-2/SMA Taiyuan LC1
CZ-2F Jiuquan LA-4/SLS-1
ULADelta-2 (7420-10C) Vandenberg SLC-2W
Sea LaunchZenit-3SL Odyssey
SpaceXFalcon-1 F4 Omelek
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/starty08.htmDla porównania 09.2023
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5512.msg187145#msg187145 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5381.msg187151#msg1871514. start Falcona 1 udany 28.09.2008 o 23:15 z wyrzutni na wyspie Omelek wystartowała RN Falcon-1, która wyniosła w T+9' 39" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=330 km, ha=685 km, i=9° makietę satelity DemoSat-2.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n080916.htm#09Sweet success at last for Falcon 1 rocketBY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: September 28, 2008
(...) "That was freakin' awesome," said Elon Musk, founder, CEO and chief technology officer of Space Technologies Corp.
Musk established SpaceX in 2002 and funded the company from the fortune he earned selling Zip2 and PayPal, his earlier startups.
"It's great to have this giant monkey off my back," Musk said. "It's been six years of extremely intense effort and some pretty heart-wrenching episodes during prior launches. The emotion I feel is much more relief than elation."
Musk estimates he has invested about $100 million of his own money into the development of the Falcon 1 rocket. (...)
SpaceX touts the Falcon 1 as the first privately-developed liquid-fueled rocket to successfully reach orbit.
"Getting to orbit, that's just a huge milestone," Musk said. "There are only a handful of countries on Earth that have done it. It's normally a country thing, not a company thing." (...)
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https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ratsat.htmIn 2020, it completed 26 launches, 31 in 2021, and nearly doubled to 61 last year.
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