Starlink and OneWeb satellites ready for launch on opposite sides of the world

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From SpaceFlightNow.com:
"SpaceX and OneWeb — space industry rivals and owners of two of the largest fleets of commercial satellites — are set to add more spacecraft to their internet networks Wednesday with launches from Cape Canaveral and Russia.

A Falcon 9 rocket is standing on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for liftoff at 4:28 a.m. EDT (0828 GMT) Wednesday with the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites, bringing the total number of Starlink spacecraft launched to date to 1,385.

Meanwhile, halfway around the world, a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket is standing on its launch pad at Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East to place 36 more OneWeb internet satellite into orbit. Liftoff of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for 10:47 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0247 GMT; 11:47 a.m. Vostochny time Thursday), and with this mission, OneWeb will have 146 satellites in orbit."

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/03/23/s ... the-world/

Sigh. The beat goes on...

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SpaceX has put up 240 starlink satellites in March alone. Another 180 scheduled for April. I don't see their pace decreasing anytime soon. Probably a safe bet that the first Starship missions will be starlink launches.