(In some ways it seems like no progress has been made.
It has been nearly 50 years since we landed people on the moon,
and no many going back, or further since.
But here, one launch, 105 satellites put in orbit, and
the launch rocket has already done 10 launches and 10
good landings. No man, but multiple rovers on Mars.
Some progress is being made.)

from
https://www.livescience.com/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-satellite-photos-transporter-3

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spotted from space before and after epic
105-satellite launch (images)
By Mike Wall published about 6 hours ago

Among the trove of satellites were 44 "SuperDove" cubesats.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force
Station on Jan. 12, 2022, one day before it launched on the
105-satellite Transporter-3 mission. This photo was captured from space
by a SkySat satellite operated by the San Francisco-based company Planet.

SpaceX has some nice before-and-after photos to mark the 10th launch of
one of its Falcon 9 rockets, thanks to a satisfied customer.

A Falcon 9 successfully delivered 105 satellites to orbit Thursday (Jan.
13), including 44 "SuperDove" cubesats for Planet, a San Francisco-based
company that operates the world's biggest constellation of
Earth-observing satellites.

The mission, called Transporter-3, marked the 10th launch of this
particular Falcon 9's first stage — and its 10th landing as well. About
nine minutes after lifting off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force
Station, the booster aced a soft touchdown just a few miles away from
the launch pad, at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1.

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Planet managed to capture imagery from space of the Falcon 9 both pre-
and post-flight using SkySats, spacecraft about the size of a mini
fridge that are capable of resolving features as small as 20 inches (50
centimeters) on Earth's surface. (SuperDoves have a resolution of about
10 feet, or 3 meters, per pixel.)

One SkySat photo shows the Transporter-3 Falcon 9 standing at attention
at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 on Wednesday (Jan. 12), one
day before liftoff. And on Thursday, Planet posted on Twitter a SkySat
video of the Falcon 9 first stage shortly after it touched down at
Landing Zone 1.

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Transporter-3 brought the total number of Planet satellites launched
over the years to more than 500, the company said in another Thursday
tweet.

Many of those spacecraft were lofted by SpaceX.

"We were thrilled to launch once again with SpaceX, who has now brought
to orbit a total of 127 Planet satellites across eight launches," Planet
co-founder and CEO Will Marshall wrote in a blog post Thursday. "This
marks our first launch with SpaceX under our new multi-year,
multi-launch rideshare agreement signed in 2021."

The 44 newly launched SuperDoves are joining an existing fleet of about
200 Planet satellites, Marshall added.

Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018;
illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life.
Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom
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writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:10:34 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>we landed people on the moon

If you keep repeating the mantra "We went to the Moon" for a long
enough time, it makes it become true. Like magic, it's bewitching.

x-Moon's mean geocentric distance 238,856 miles(n.t.s.)-x
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x----Geostationary orbit ~22,300 miles altitude---------x
x----Mid-altitude orbit ~12,500 miles altitude----------x
x----Low-altitude orbit below ~1200 miles altitude------x
x----JPL/NASA Space Shuttle orbit ~300 miles altitude---x
x----Intl. Space Station orbit ~220 miles altitude------x
x----Earth's mean sea level -0- miles altitude----------x

Arthur Charles Clarke was born to Charles Wright & Mary Nora
Willis-Clarke on Sunday 16 December 1917 at 13 Blenheim Road
(3W28:36,51N12:23) Minehead TA24 5PZ, Somersetshire, England.
(N. McAleer's biography "on the morning of December 16 1917")

Stanley Kubrick was born to Jacob Leonard & Sadie Gertrude Perveler-
Kubrick at Society for the Lying-In Hospital 305 2nd Ave. (73W59:01,
40N44:05) Manhattan New York, NY, on Thursday July 26, 1928 (AA/BR).

On 1/16/2022 10:18 AM, D wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:10:34 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> we landed people on the moon
>
> If you keep repeating the mantra "We went to the Moon" for a long
> enough time, it makes it become true. Like magic, it's bewitching.
>

Because the clear truth is, WE DID GO TO THE MOON.
The USSR would have loved to show we had failed,
or were faking it. They did not, because they
could not, because they had data that clearly shows
we went there.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:04:49 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Because the clear truth is

"HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie."
--Dr. Chandra(Sivasubramanian Chandrasegaram Pillai/aka Mr.
Langley) in '2010: The Year We Make Contact'(c)1984, MGM

On 1/17/2022 9:25 AM, D wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:04:49 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Because the clear truth is
>
> "HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie."
> --Dr. Chandra(Sivasubramanian Chandrasegaram Pillai/aka Mr.
> Langley) in '2010: The Year We Make Contact'(c)1984, MGM
>
Meanwhile "D",
you might find it worthwhile and interesting to
subscribe, read, and post in the following newsgroups.

rec.aviation.military

alt.history.what-if

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:57:54 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>you

"white eyes" speak with forked tongue

On 1/17/2022 5:11 PM, D wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:57:54 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> you
Meanwhile "D",
you might find it worthwhile and interesting to
subscribe, read, and post in the following newsgroups.

rec.aviation.military

alt.history.what-if

>
> "white eyes" speak with forked tongue
>
I was just trying to suggest some newsgroups
where you could communicate with others.
Good luck to you.