Second stage failed to ignite
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• Pretty video of boost phase and gut-wrenching deathwatch as data shows speed dropping after booster shutdown until word that the destruct command was sent
(What? Submitted as another example of why “space is hard to do”)
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• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
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• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
STARLINK from Vandenberg
(Bullseye on a sunny California Friday with great views of Mother Earth as well as the space-geek stuff)
Sunset Launch
Oooh, preeetyyy (definitely full-screen worthy, definitely)
Interesting things to watch:
• Stage separation, as usual
• Fairing separation, first time looking aft
• Ice particles dynamics as Stg-1 rotates to tail-first
• Stg-1 shadow on thruster plumes
• Stg-1 decelerates as it rises to the top of its trajectory, then accelerates as it falls, then decelerates during entry burn, then accelerates for a few seconds (5600 to 5700 km/hr) until the atmosphere thickens enough for drag to cause deceleration (where it would overheat if not for the entry burn)
• Great vid of landing at sunset (kind’a romantic)
(What? Yes, this will be on the exam)
Payload deployment (unique view)
MORE:
Starlink launch from Vandenberg sched. Wed afternoon (UPDATED)
Crew launch resched. Wed night
It could happen
Mission details (new Starlink satellite design, Crew/ISS)
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