On Saturday, September 10, SpaceX launched 34 Starlink satellites and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This was the 14th launch and landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and now nine Starlink missions.
The mission was SpaceX’s 60th Starlink mission to date.
It was SpaceX’s 2nd Starlink mission in September and 27th Starlink mission this year.
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You just read about Space Networking & Orbital Data Centers. A name from the archive that helped shape it:
Stonesoft built Firewalls, intrusion prevention and evasion testing. What became of it?
Stonesoft brought Firewalls, intrusion prevention and evasion testing to Networking. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by McAfee for US$389M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside McAfee today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about Space Networking & Orbital Data Centers. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Inmarsat-A served 1982–2007. What ultimately replaced it?
Inmarsat-A the first satellite phone service: analog FDM voice relayed via geostationary satellites to ship-borne one-meter gyro-stabilized dish antennas. Its job passed to Digital Inmarsat-B — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
