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2020-04-22 Science

Falcon9 to become most-flown currently active US rocket with Wednesday's launch, taking the mantle from AtlasV.

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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Price matters.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-22 08:05|| 2020-04-22 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Free Market Competition (or at least Quasi-Free) VS. Cost Plus Bids by a Monopolistic Cabal... This is the 21st Century I was hoping to see.

Posted by magpie 2020-04-22 13:49|| 2020-04-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 as the 60 sats float away

Posted by 3dc 2020-04-22 15:50|| 2020-04-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW by the end of this year StarLink might start impacting Comcast, ATT and Verizon with Up/Down Giga-bit data to home users.
420 StarLink Sats currently launched

Posted by 3dc 2020-04-22 15:52|| 2020-04-22 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Remarkable thing isn't the bandwidth, its also the lower latency due to lower orbits vs geosync sats.

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-22 23:44|| 2020-04-22 23:44|| Front Page Top

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