Category: Fun & Curios

• New Shepard (alternative view) suborbital theme-park ride, SUN
(evidently they didn’t really need all ’em parachutes)
• Falcon9, NRO, VSFB, WED
(wee-hours fog, now that‘s the SLC-4 I remember, boring vid though)
• Falcon9, Starlink, Cape, WED (textbook night launch)
• Falcon9, Starlink, Cape. THU (another textbook night launch)
• Electron, Prefire, NZ, SAT

Cool Vids of the Day:

Rocket gymnastics
pic.twitter.com/HTZmnXk3XS

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2024

SpaceX rocket science is pure magic, imo.

“Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the real world.”

— Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/ObEVaba8gK

— TESLA CARS ONLY. (@teslacarsonly) May 24, 2024

• Falcon9, Starlink SUN night, Cape
• Falcon9, Starlink TUE afternoon, VSFB
• Falcon9, Starlink FRI night, Cape (Stg-1’s 21st mission)

• Falcon9, Starlink MON lunchtime, Cape (textbook)
• Falcon9, StarlinkWED afternoon, Cape (nice vid of fairing being left behind: it’s not falling away, it’s still rising at thousands of mph, but the camera is accelerating away)
• Falcon9, Starlink THU midnight, VSFB

• Falcon9, Starlink SUN evening, Cape (nice vid)
• Falcon9, Worldview THU afternoon, VSFB (Stg-1 RTLS, return to launch site, LZ-4) (great vids)
• Falcon9, Starlink THU night, Cape (textbook)

Four launches are expected next week, starting Monday night.
I’ll post their schedules Mon as planning approaches reality,
i.e. after the ops guys make their no-kidding presentations to management

• Falcon9, Starlink TUE evening, Cape (nice vid) 300th Falcon landing!
• Electron TUE evening, NZ (nice vid)
• Falcon9, Galileo SAT night, Cape (no Stg-1 landing, no Stg-2 vid)

No current events to tie these to,
but I hate to waste a doodle,
so I’ll just dump these here

Sorry for the burden of lame jokes,
but this should serve as a reminder that
I’m just entertainin’ myself, here