Major US Launches this Week:

• MON Falcon9 / Starlink Cape (record 27 missions for this Stg-1)
- WED Minotaur/ NROL VSFB 

Upcoming:

★ SAT  6:41 am Falcon9 / NROL VSFB
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12 THOUGHTS ON “Stuff That’s Hard to Do (13-19 Apr)”

• certainly like your website but you need to take a look at the spelling on quite a few of your posts Many of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very troublesome to inform the reality nevertheless I will definitely come back again

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  • Machine no gettum patois, slang, sarcasm, and informal conversational usage.

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    • Machine Intelligence isn’t.

      I’m a programmer, among other things. I know.

      Nopitty nope nope.

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  • And I have a hard time with people complaining about gramma and spieling without the proper use of punksuation.
    🤔😇🤣

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    • Maybe it’s ai cummings.

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• If Skynet’s gonna be a pedant, we’re all screwed.

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  • Yeah,
    I wonder how it’ll handle thumbed-in phone text messaging.

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• I predict the booster will continue to set new records until it falls over or is damaged in transit. *

  *exploding after launch is considered “in transit” right?

  The logistics of a launch window fascinates me. I assume there are all sorts of things which have to be considered, such as closing air space, various objects in orbit, etc.

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  • Been a long time, but let’s see if the ol’ memory still works:

    Launch window is mainly driven by orbit requirements (target, sun angle, relative position of other satellites within the constellation, etc.).
    This was more fun, back in the slide-rule days.
    I’m not aware of any space-object collision-avoidance considerations, back in the day, just observation-avoidance, perhaps.

    Go/no-go involves weather constraints (lightning, ground winds, upper-altitude wind shear, landing barge sea state, etc.), published safety zones (vehicles, vessels, trains, planes), and range-support readiness (comms, tracking, command destruct, emergency services, etc.).
    The supporting ranges do heroic work making these routine.

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• No mention of the Blue Origin ‘Babes in Space’ launch? :-\

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  • https://x.com/conmomma/status/1912242298827747396

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  • Blue Origin “crew” as they referred to themselves after their high dollar joyride? Bwaaa haa haa.
    Bezos could have saved makeup, limousine and food costs by sending monkeys instead of the Real Housewives into low space.

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