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03-10-2020, 06:17 PM | #2551 | |
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03-10-2020, 06:24 PM | #2552 |
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Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 85 times over 10 years, resulting in 83 full mission successes (97.6%), one partial success (CRS-1 delivered its cargo to the ISS, but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit), and one failure (the CRS-7 spacecraft was lost in flight).
So, only one real failure. |
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03-10-2020, 06:27 PM | #2553 | |
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03-10-2020, 06:28 PM | #2554 |
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Ugh:
If U.S. airlines had the same failure rate as the now-retired space shuttles, there’d be 272 fatal crashes a day. |
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03-10-2020, 06:29 PM | #2555 |
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03-14-2020, 09:38 AM | #2556 |
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https://www.space.com/spacex-starlin...h-webcast.html
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink satellites to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation Sunday (March 15) and you can watch it live online. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Starlink mission from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for no earlier than 9:22 a.m. EST (1322 GMT). This is SpaceX's sixth launch of the year and the sixth Starlink launch to date. The mission will star a veteran Falcon 9 rocket that will do what no other Falcon has done before: launch and land five times. The booster, dubbed B1048.5, previously launched a bevy of satellites including part of the Iridium NEXT constellations, an Israeli lunar lander a communications satellites for Argentina and Indonesia, and a previous Starlink mission. This is a major milestone for SpaceX. The upgraded version of their workhorse was introduced in 2018, launching the first communications satellite for Bangladesh. Company founder and CEO, Elon Musk said that the souped up booster would be able to fly ten times with little refurbishment in between. Sunday's flight marks the first time a Falcon has reached the halfway point. |
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03-14-2020, 10:56 AM | #2557 |
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They need to step this shit up. We need a new planet soon. This one is infected.
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03-14-2020, 11:59 AM | #2558 |
pie is never free
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03-14-2020, 08:24 PM | #2559 |
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03-14-2020, 09:04 PM | #2560 |
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03-15-2020, 07:08 AM | #2561 |
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Bump for this morning's launch in case anyone's interested. Coming up in ~15.
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03-15-2020, 07:11 AM | #2562 |
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Feed up, ~11 minutes
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03-15-2020, 07:23 AM | #2563 |
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Whoa - abort. It's been a while for one of those.
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03-15-2020, 07:23 AM | #2564 |
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Abort right before liftoff, not sure why yet.
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03-15-2020, 07:25 AM | #2565 |
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No launch today then.
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