Orbital launches of 2024 infographic is complete! The Spaceflight Archive website is well on the way as well. My goal is to have one of these graphics accessible in high resolution to all. Hopefully including every year, starting from 1957.
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Reaching orbit has never been the goal of Starship test flights so far.
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you know what this shows me? that elin need to stay out of politics and stick with what he knows how to do
I didn’t even know that Iran has a space agency.
Firefly who what? Could someone please provide some info?
The fact that the SpaceX launches have a slightly different graphic for expendable and reusable launches for the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy is a master class in visual design.
So how much has x coughed up to launch all that then?
Saddens me so much to see only three attempts for ESA. Europe needs to get its shit together and start investing hard before it’s too late.
I truly hope new players such as Maiaspace will make a difference in how Europe views the space industry
What in the world is “ExSpace” lol sounds like a B sci-fi movie generic private space company
This is mis-informational.
For example, no Starship launch has yet been an attempt to reach orbit.
Why ESA and why not Arianespace? The rockets are not operated by the ESA, but by Arianespace. For US and China you use the operators in the graphic.
Interesting. But it’s mixing space agencies and rocket companies. I’d like to see NASA launches separate from commercial launches. So, if SpaceX is launching to test, or to put Starlink satellites into orbit, that would be under “SpaceX” and NASA would be under NASA, along weith the ULA and other companies.
I’d also like to see a number next to the group name; CNSA has a lot of rockets there but they’re drawn very small.
As interesting as this is, all I think about are how these rockets contribute to GHGs 1000x more than a person does in a lifetime.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[CNSA](/r/Space/comments/1iarruu/stub/m9clzno “Last usage”)|Chinese National Space Administration|
|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1iarruu/stub/m9cvtq1 “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
|[ICBM](/r/Space/comments/1iarruu/stub/m9cgsn1 “Last usage”)|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1iarruu/stub/m9clzno “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1iarruu/stub/m9co7nb “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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one bit of feedback
would be nice to see grouping by Country then sub grouping by launch provider
China being split between so many hides the scale of there launches this year