This week’s thrilling space adventures
• Falcon9 Starlink from VSFB (Monday evening)
• Electron NRO from Wallops VA (Thur wee hours)
• Falcon9 Cargo Dragon from the Cape (Thur afternoon)
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape (Sat night)
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Moved Thursday’s Starship test launch to dwell up here as the major historical event that it is,
but a a few comments were left orphaned down on the original post
STARSHIP Test Flight #3 (Thursday)
Recap (with latest SpaceX assessments)
Also: Basic Tutorial
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape (Friday)
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Big Week! (times EDT)
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
• Falcon9 Starlink from VSFB
• Crew Dragon splashdown
• Electron from NZ
• KAIROS Madien Flight from Japan [KABOOM! Activated self-destruct system, dunno why yet]
• STARSHIP from Starbase TX
STARSHIP Test Flight #3, Launch to Orbit
Re-Entry to Blackout
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Weekly Launches of Interest
(well, of interest to me, anyway)
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
• Falcon9 Crew to ISS
Double-header
Unusual: clear at VSFB, foggy at the Cape
• Falcon9 Transporter from VSFB (great vid)
• Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
Next launch Sunday evening
Stuff That’s Hard To Do
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
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
• 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
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
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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if you’re interested in launches elsewhere the World
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rather than a half-assed shaman.
(What? Well, yeah, okay; but golf’s different, innit?)
