Roundup of thoughts

1/ With the 212th landing of a #Falcon9 booster during the @hughesconnects #FalconHeavy Jupiter 3 mission, @SpaceX has reused or saved nearly 1,894 #MerlinEngine rocket engines (some were swapped out) Read about the SpaceX Merlin engine here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin 2/ That’s astonishing and encouraging for the long imagined #spacefaring #multiplanet future of humanity. Image courtesy of SpaceX - spacex.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-02-14)

1/ Here’s an update to my roundup of @amazon ‘s gigantic tranche of 94 launch contracts for its #ProjectKuiper satellite constellation  2/ As of June 2023, no satellites are in orbit and Amazon has just 37 months to launch 1/2 the constellation under its spectrum license  3/ The first two are scheduled to fly on the ULAVulcan debut launch delayed until Q4 2023  4/ Here's an updated graphic showing the number of months remaining   5/ Only @SpaceX has launched a comparable number of satellites with TBD #starlink in LEO  6/ It took @SpaceX 24 months & TBD launches to surpass 1600 in orbit   You will find more infographics at Statista  7/ Prior to lofting the #StarLink constellation, #Falcon9 had completed a total of TBD launches including #TBD in preceeding 12 months  8/ As of this writing, the only launch vehicle in the #Amazon fleet to reach orbit is the #ULAAtlasV  9/ None of the new heavy launch vehicles #HLV is yet flying - #ULAVulcan & #Ariane6 debut launches are d