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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (13-19 Apr)

April 19, 2025
Major US Launches this Week:

• MON Falcon9 / Starlink Cape (record 27 missions for this Stg-1)
- WED Minotaur/ NROL VSFB
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• Updated: 19 APR / 1200 (times Eastern)

12 THOUGHTS ON “Stuff That’s Hard to Do (13-19 Apr)”

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    April 12, 2025 at 10:54 pm

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    • DougM says:
      April 13, 2025 at 8:49 am

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

      • Igor says:
        April 13, 2025 at 8:07 pm

        Machine Intelligence isn’t.

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    • Henk Vandenbergh says:
      April 14, 2025 at 12:37 pm

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      • Veeshir says:
        April 14, 2025 at 8:56 pm

        Maybe it’s ai cummings.

  • Veeshir says:
    April 13, 2025 at 5:05 pm

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

    • DougM says:
      April 13, 2025 at 6:54 pm

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

  • blake says:
    April 15, 2025 at 6:12 am

    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.

    • DougM says:
      April 15, 2025 at 9:11 am

      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.

  • leelu says:
    April 15, 2025 at 10:30 am

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

    • DougM says:
      April 15, 2025 at 12:54 pm

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

    • dick not quite dead white guy says:
      April 17, 2025 at 6:51 am

      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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