Category: Fun & Curios

The Week (19th-25th): Three or Four Launches of Interest PLUS a Moon Landing

• Electron launch from NZ of Astroscale space-junk rendezvous demo
• Falcon9 HTS from the Cape
• IM-1 Moon Landing (post-landing nailbiter) Moon lander status overview vid
• Falcon9 Starlink from VSFB
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape (pretty)

Next Week:
Two launches on Friday

Three launches in 24hrs!
• Falcon9 USSF from the Cape, Stg-1 ground landing

• Falcon9 Nova-C IM-1 Moon Lander from the Cape, Stg-1 ground landing

First US Moon landing mission since Apollo in ’72
Launch @55min, Stg-1 Landing @1h02m30s, Odysseus Separation @1h43m45s

Landing expected next Thurs, Feb 22nd
We’re headed back to the Moooon!
Live Tracker

• Falcon9 Starlink from VSFB, Stg-1 barge landing

This week’s launch action (that I care about):
Times EST, schedules WX-driven

Falcon9 PACE Oceanographic night launch from the Cape
Stg-I landing back at the Cape

Falcon9 Starlink clear afternoon launch from Vandenberg
Best vid from a VSFB/SLC4 launch so far

Axiom mission returning from the ISS:
Undocking
Splashdown
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Add this link to your bookmarks,
if you’re interested in launches elsewhere the World

Me? More’n 20 AF/NRO launches and never encountered any launch juju.
Technostuff works better when you’re a good engineer
rather than a half-assed shaman.
(What? Well, yeah, okay; but golf’s different, innit?)

Falcon9 Cygnus Resupply to ISS
Daylight launch, landing at the Cape
Best videos ever of stage separation, landing, and payload separation

Electron Launch from NZ
Booster parachute water recovery

Tonight’s Double-Header

Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg

Thursday Double-Header

Falcon9 Dragon Axiom-3 (private manned mission to ISS)
Skip ahead to 2h:08m to avoid the run-up yakking
Terrific views!
Approach & Docking (skip to 1h:42m)

Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg
(great landing view, this is separation to landing, no liftoff vid yet)

Japan lands spacecraft on the Moon
but solar-panel problem may ruin mission

Fascinating detailed review after full problem analysis

Note:
The post is just for fun,
but in case you want to take it seriously:
1. Men exist
2. Big rockets exist
3. Moon rock souvenirs exist
4. Movie special effects exist
5. Nearby aliens, no evidence exists
6. Math