2hats
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Underway right now. Currently powering to a sun synchronous orbit. This time they are experimenting and going to have a go at recovering one half of the payload fairing with a giant net mounted on a boat.
SpaceX rockets and launches
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Can we watch it anywhere?Underway right now. Currently powering to a sun synchronous orbit. This time they are experimenting and going to have a go at recovering one half of the payload fairing with a giant net mounted on a boat.
Crispy
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Nah, no coverage of the fairing capture. The launch was boring too. Dark and foggy, and no booster landing.
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Plastic Paddy
Yes, I just caught the separation on the SpaceX feed. A bit dull.
2hats
Dust.
The F9 upper stage was spotted early yesterday evening, venting or executing (just having executed) a disposal burn over Scandinavia about two orbits after the launch:
Orbital data suggests this was part of a two stage burn to dump the upper stage in the northern Pacific between the Aleutians and Midway.
Orbital data suggests this was part of a two stage burn to dump the upper stage in the northern Pacific between the Aleutians and Midway.
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Crispy
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*in* the water?
Only by accident or when deliberately expending the stage
*on* the water?
Only back when they were testing the landing procedure
*on a boat* on the water?
Multiple times already
2hats
Dust.
Launch still on target for 0321BST tonight. Should be quite a good display for people within 300km of VAFB. Launched at night, shortly after MECO it will be back in sunlight where the booster fly back burn should be lit and visible, then it will return to the Earth’s shadow where the re-entry and landing burns should at least be visible. Typical view from the coast just north of LA, south of VAFB (times PDT):
2hats
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Successful launch. As expected, some pretty exhaust plume (and RCS jet) patterns caught by sunlight during the ascent and boost back phases…
(e2a: somewhat reminiscent of various structures seen in the sky in the arctic regions in recent years, which are just RCS targetting adjustments for the MIRV platform in the latter stages of ICBM tests, and in at least one case a missile failure.)
(e2a: somewhat reminiscent of various structures seen in the sky in the arctic regions in recent years, which are just RCS targetting adjustments for the MIRV platform in the latter stages of ICBM tests, and in at least one case a missile failure.)
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I'm amazed that the launches have become so routine that this thread hasn't been updated for a while.
Today has marked a major milestone. The first time that a booster has been used for the third time! It also launched the highest number of satellites that SpaceX has been asked to do.
Today has marked a major milestone. The first time that a booster has been used for the third time! It also launched the highest number of satellites that SpaceX has been asked to do.
Crispy
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Not only has it launched 3 times, but it's also launched from all 3 spacex launch sites. It was their 64th launch and 32nd landing, so from now on they will have landed more than half the rockets they've launched.
They didn't catch the fairing halves, but came very close and fished them out of the sea. Apparently they'll just hose them down and they'll fly again. Another $6m off the cost of flight.
They didn't catch the fairing halves, but came very close and fished them out of the sea. Apparently they'll just hose them down and they'll fly again. Another $6m off the cost of flight.
Crispy
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shoulda shut my mouth
