Category: Fun & Curios

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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

• 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