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Has any country achieved this feat? [update] Has any country achieved this feat at this cost?


Read the article:

> The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014.

Also, it's not exactly a feat. If someone really wanted, they could stuff a rocket full of nanosats but I imagine there's more risk in launching that much at once. (They could be released in sequence but still, more chances for something to go wrong.)


Yep, it's that easy.


It's not what I said. I meant that there probably are reasons apart from difficulty that people don't launch so many satellites at once.


From the article:

The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014.


IIRC the US and Russia have launched something like 30 satellites.

But, nevertheless, impressive.


You mean cost/kg to LEO? My short search showed costs far higher than SpaceX.


NDTV, an indian news channel, just reported that the launch cost was 50% less than spacex. No specifics were provided though.


From another comment here:

"the PSLV's payload to LEO is 3.25 tons. Wikipedia gives the cost of a launch at 15 million USD so that gives about $4600/kg to LEO. For context, that's nearly twice as expensive per kg as a Falcon 9 launch but they're difficult to compare because they serve different launch markets."




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