• SUN afternoon Falcon9, Starlink FL
• SUN night Falcon9, Starlink CA
Falcon Heavy’s side boosters land on Landing Zones 1 and 2 pic.twitter.com/5RDbTGNnSq
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 25, 2024
• 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
• 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)
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