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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (16-22 Aug)
Major US Launches this Week: • WED am CA Falcon9 Starlink (100th mission in 2026) - THU am NZ Electron iQPS • FRI am FL Falcon9 Starlink • SAT am CA Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 22 AUG / 0340 (all times US Eastern) Last week Rocket PrOn:
Taiwanese rocket test straight to the "space is hard" hall of fame pic.twitter.com/HGAp0ZeWcW
— Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) (@DrChrisCombs) August 21, 2026
The Starship preparing for our fourteenth flight test completed a full-duration, 60-second static fire with all six Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/DY11p3KVxU
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 21, 2026
JUST IN: NASA reveals the impact site where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage crashed into the Moon at 5,400 MPH, leaving behind a new crater. pic.twitter.com/q0ioxHvprW
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 18, 2026
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (9-15 Aug)
Major US Launches this Week: • TUE am FL Falcon9 Starlink (nice fairing eject/fall sequence) • WED am CA Falcon9 Starlink • SAT pm FL Falcon9 Globalstar (RTLS, cool view of impinging plumes of Stg-1/Stg-2, payload deployment) [38.5 minutes later…] • SAT pm CA Falcon9 F-1 Classified LEO ______ Updated: 15 AUG / 2200 (all times US Eastern) Last week From the Hard-to-Do File: Chinese Long March 7A Monday (for those of you who wonder why MaxQ is noted on a trajectory)It's hard to tell how much the video screen footage is slowed down, but here's a rough attempt at syncing two views: pic.twitter.com/oXiHZNYglK
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) August 10, 2026More detailed view
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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (2-8 Aug)
Major US Launches this Week: • TUE pm CA Falcon9 Starlink (Now that's the Vandenfog I remember) • WED am FL Falcon9 Bluebird (Stg-1's 30th) • SAT am CA Falcon9 Starlink (fog, Stg-1 cam inop, nice trajectory graphics) ______ Updated: 8 AUG / 1400 (all times US Eastern) Last week
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (26 Jul – 1 Aug)
Major US Launches this Week: • THU am FL Falcon9 NROL (RTLS) • FRI pm CA Falcon9 Starlink ______ Updated: 31 JUL / 2320 (all times US Eastern) Last week Space PrOn: (go full-screen)View of Starship in space from a Starlink V3 satellite on Flight 13.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 31, 2026
This composite is made of imagery from four separate cameras on a single satellite. Six of the satellites were equipped with cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to… pic.twitter.com/sNTHHz5vLr
