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Into to The sky: all over again.

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Przestrzeń, Rakieta, Noc, Kreskówka, Wszechświat
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Accessed: 05-02-2022.

Rihanna sung: “…Diamonds in the sky”. More relevant to the present would be saying: “Rockets in the sky”. According to the article published in Business Insider and based on Elon Musk’s Tweets, Falcon 9, most well-known rocket in the world developed by SpaceX, will by fly into the orbit every week in 2022. It’s worth to mention that this only a plan. As we know from the motion-picture “Forest Gump”: “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know  what’s you’re going to get”. In other words: You never know that will happen next. However, You may agree that the plan itself sounds amazing / incredible.

Something like that this vison of the such intensive schedule of launches would be unthinkable. But now it’s about to be seen. To make this whole case more interesting let me quote another Tweet by Musk (he does like this social medium, isn’t he?): “If things go well, Falcon will launch about once a week on average in 2022, delivering ~2/3 of all Earth payload to orbit”. Can You imagine that? Achieving this high – level goal might me possible thanks to predicted record 52 in 2022. Falcon’s achievements in the begging of this year make an impression. There is still second month of the year, and the mentioned rocket has flown already 9 times (so far). Only in February we may have noticed 2 launches (including Starlink satellites delivery). Generally speaking, according to Ars Technica reporter tweet from the third of February: “The Falcon 9 rocket has now flown more consecutive successful missions, 111, than any orbital rocket in history.”

Any flaws? C02 pollution (rockets, in contradistinction to cars by Tesla aren’t eco friendly), the growing treat of monopoly (Space X is becoming more and more powerful…). I do believe in the benefits of diversity – also regarding the market).

The content sources:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-every-week-payload-2022-2. Accessed: 04-02-2022.

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1489274659367530511. Accessed: 04-02-2022.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1489351220628230147?cxt=HHwWhsC4terCnqspAAAA. Accessed: 04-02-2022.

The image source:

https://pixabay.com/pl/illustrations/przestrzeń-rakieta-noc-kreskówka-3262811/. Accessed: 04-02-2022.

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