Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink, B9 Static Fire)
Starlink night launch from the Cape
Sunday morning’s static fire of Starship’s SuperHeavy B9
with nifty new water-cooling baseplate
Drone view of Booster 9 static fire test pic.twitter.com/ARv6H6njgu
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 6, 2023
Who Wants to Tell Him?
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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Intelsat)
Another textbook night launch from the Cape
Payload deployment at the end is nice*
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* Like a magician’s final flourish after a series of seemingly miraculous set-up moves
Redistribution, aka Theft
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______An Offer We Can’t Refuse
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He Has Given Us a Sign
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• Alternative joke
• Title cultural ref
• Cultural ref
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Twofer: Falcon9 & Falcon Heavy)
Thursday Night Falcon9 Starlink
This booster’s 15th launch/landing
Friday’s Falcon Heavy Jupiter3 comsat launch
Side boosters land, center booster expended
Full water-deluge test on Starhip launch mount
Another angle
Just a reminder of what can be done,
if your goal is to actually fix an actual problem
(see: engineering vs legislating)