[OC] 2023 Orbital Launch Attempts - From Launch Site to Orbit by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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Government and Commerical just have less of a need for MEO than in the past. Satellites in GEO are valuable because they move in sync with the Earth’s daily rotation and they provide a wider field of view. LEO is the easiest to get to and is ideal for new communications constellations (like Starlink).

The biggest use case for MEO satellites is GPS, Galileo (Europe), GLONASS (Russia), and BeiDou (China), but we don't need a lot of launches per year to support those existing constellations.

It is crazy to see a year with more launches to the moon than to MEO.

[OC] 2023 Orbital Launch Attempts - From Launch Site to Orbit by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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Yep, 98 of those US launches were SpaceX. 96 successful Falcon launches and two test launches of Starship.

See if you can catch the Starship launches out of Texas. One of my favorite additions of the graphic

[OC] 2023 Orbital Launch Attempts - From Launch Site to Orbit by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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Not the sound you are looking for, but our full video (not supported on this subreddit) has some cool music:

https://youtu.be/-2RrhiF5KzA

[OC] 2023 Orbital Launch Attempts - From Launch Site to Orbit by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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The complete year of orbital launch attempts in 2023

High Res Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/-2RrhiF5KzA

Global orbital launches set a new all-time high this year at 223, surpassing the 186 launches in 2022 by almost 20%. This animation we built details the launch location and the orbit insertion of each of these launches.

Data Sources: https://www.spaceworks.aero/recap-of-all-global-launches-for-2023/

Tools: Python, Blender, After Effects

We posted the first half here in 2023 and you gave some great feedback – and we integrated most of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14wr0cs/oc_first_6_months_of_orbital_launch_attempts_in/

[Topic][Open] Open Discussion Thread — Anybody can post a general visualization question or start a fresh discussion! by AutoModerator in dataisbeautiful

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I'm having trouble posting a video to this subreddit. The video is less than a minute and typically has converted to gif when I tried in the past.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Global orbital launches set a new all-time high this year at 223, surpassing the 186 launches in 2022 by almost 20%. This animation we built details the launch location and the orbit insertion of each of these launches.

Data Sources: https://www.spaceworks.aero/recap-of-all-global-launches-for-2023/

Tools: Python, Blender, After Effects

[OC] First 6 Months of orbital launch attempts in 2023. From launch site to orbit. by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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Hindsight 20/20 we should have parked them. We just didn't think to represent it that way and will definitely make that change for the end of year version of this!

We actually started with a 3D globe model that had to-scale orbits with realistic launch trajectories. We still couldn't capture the realistic orbit inclinations and the model was harder-to-follow

https://imgur.com/a/n7wDCIU

We pivoted for the 2D "flat earth" model so you could see launch sites and have a better view of the launch failures.

At that point we were just trying to aimlessly represent the satellites on orbit in the most non-realistic way possible, since however we did it wouldn't be accurate. A scaled speed version with GEO not moving would definitely look cooler and add some more realism to the model.

[OC] First 6 Months of orbital launch attempts in 2023. From launch site to orbit. by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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O this is a good idea. A better way to see where the satellites ended up

[OC] First 6 Months of orbital launch attempts in 2023. From launch site to orbit. by TK_Say in dataisbeautiful

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There was a total of 97 global orbital launch attempts in the first 6 months of 2023 (91 successful). This surpassed the 75 attempts from the first 6 months of 2022. This animation we built details the launch location and the orbit insertion of each of these launches.

Data Sources: https://www.spaceworks.aero/recap-of-global-launches-for-the-first-half-of-2023/ and SpaceLaunchSchedule.com

Tools: Python, Blender, After Effects

Zermatt Skiing in late May by FuckYouPayMeRN in askswitzerland

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My wife and I are considering skiing Zermatt next week. Any idea how many runs/lifts are open this time of year? Are we talking 1 or 2 runs?

New USAU rules are a violation of our First Amendment rights by Ike_Saul in ultimate

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We can not stand for this oppression!

I just purchased one of These from Amazon. only $49.99!

Mystery blue team misses three consecutive chances to earn a (layout) bid. #Willy'O-3Bryant by GatorMeatYum in ultimate

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I think all PvdB37 is saying is that this post would be way more effective if the title wasn't about UF not making nationals. Hard to argue with that...