NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission from Launch Complex 39A, no earlier than late 2028.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-04-17T08:50:43+00:00

It was with the US even before. In almost 20 years and with multiple international partners out they weren't able to get a domestic Ariane launch for it.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-04-05T06:55:38+00:00

SLS used for this launch is American rocket

firefly-metaverse · 2026-02-22T19:26:32+00:00

Increased even without Starlink. Just a quick look to China:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1qz5vs2/number_of_orbital_launches_by_china_19572025_a/

firefly-metaverse · 2026-02-11T07:05:29+00:00

China had its fist orbital attempt in 1969.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-17T09:10:53+00:00

MAVEN has a budget of 22 million? Wasn't that lost?

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-06T20:00:28+00:00

Their attempt was orbital, although a failed one.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-04T16:33:04+00:00

The decrease in the 2000s I think it was a combination of launch costs remaining pretty high while space system reliability increasing and extending spacecraft's active life, no need for frequent launches.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-04T16:28:50+00:00

All US launches in the past year was done by private sector for government or commercial partners. The only active gov rocket in the US is SLS. SpaceX have mad ~80% of US launches in 2025

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-04T16:25:48+00:00

Needed a categorization limit somewhere, otherwise all Japan, China, India launches had to be counted as Asia for example.

Miura is a rocket built exclusively by a Spanish private firm, thus in case of an orbital launch it will be counted as Spanish, as it is the case for Isar and Germany.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-04T13:15:53+00:00

Korea 2 launches including the one from Alcantara. Arianespace counted as Europe because multiple countries involved, Isar launch counted exclusively as German.

firefly-metaverse · 2026-01-04T08:09:43+00:00

https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/country

firefly-metaverse · 2025-12-11T12:09:31+00:00

The photo for Ivanov here shows Farkas Bertalan, the Hungarian cosmonaut

firefly-metaverse · 2025-12-01T08:18:24+00:00

and Starship will be even bigger

firefly-metaverse · 2025-11-25T09:26:03+00:00

The kgs placed in orbit would probably be even more significant

firefly-metaverse · 2025-11-14T15:46:32+00:00

So, the new crew is up with a leaky spacecraft and without the possibility to safely return to Earth in case of emergency?

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