Category: Fun & Curios

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• Inspiration

Wellp, that didn’t go as planned
(When you buy ground support equipment from the
corrupt suppliers of Chinese building materials)
Detailed review

See also: earlier last week
(the orange cloud is a form of nitric acid, a hypergolic propellant)

• SUN night Mitsubishi H3, Land Observation Japan
• TUE night Falcon9, Starlink FL
• WED night Firefly Alpha, cubesats CA

• SUN afternoon Falcon9, Starlink FL
• SUN night Falcon9, Starlink CA

Stg-1 and fairing halves falling away @45 & 50sec (go full-screen)
• TUE evening Falcon Heavy, GOES FL

Falcon Heavy’s side boosters land on Landing Zones 1 and 2 pic.twitter.com/5RDbTGNnSq

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 25, 2024

Spectacular view during GOES deployment

• THU morning Falcon9, Starlink FL

• FRI sunset Falcon9, NRO CA

Routine eng/ops for us space-launch nerds:

• TUE night Falcon9, Starlink CA (textbook, nice vid)

• THU afternoon Electron, NoTimeTolouse NZ (mission #50)
• THU evening Falcon9, Astra FL (great vid and commentary)

Next Week: Four Falcon9s and a Falcon Heavy
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Routine reminders:
– Times, Eastern
– Most official live-coverage links start around T-5min
– Only US-involved serious-business missions are included, not suborbital joyrides or foreign stuff
– Other entries are at my whim, since I’m mainly just entertainin’ myself, here
– Remember, space is hard

Scheduled Friday afternoon launch attempt ABORT at engine ignition
Haven’t seen this before
That’s why computers run this stuff

• Moved to SUN Jun 23 Falcon9, Starlink FL

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• Story
• Cultural ref

Flown:
• TUE Falcon9, Starlink FL
• WED AtlasV, Starliner, Crewed FL. Docked with ISS (thruster anomalies)
• FRI Falcon9, Starlink FL (Landing #300)

• SAT Falcon9, Starlink CA

• SpaceX Starship Test Flight: Full Mission
The nail-biting for the heroic forward flap starts at ~T+96min
If you ever wondered why SpaceX went with a stainless-steel structure, this is why

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• Cultural ref

• TUE Falcon9, Starlink Cape
(sunny/textbook daytime launch)
• TUE Falcon9, EarthCare VSFB
(landing at LZ-4/SLC-4W, sat deploy @T+10:50)
• FRI Falcon9, Starlink Cape
(textbook night launch)

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• Source