LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1386825367948644352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Oh, Elon. He'll never grow past age 15.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/

81st successful SpaceX landing of an orbital class booster,. Number seven for this bird. Un****ingbelieveble....

SN15 might fly today. Stream starts in 30 minutes:

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Scrubbed for today.

https://mars.nasa.gov/images/mepjpl/...-16x9-web1.jpg

Ingenuity successfully completed its fourth flight today, and we couldn’t be happier. The helicopter took off at 10:49 a.m. EDT (7:49 a.m. PDT, or 12:33 local Mars time), climbing to an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) before flying south approximately 436 feet (133 meters) and then back, for an 872-foot (266-meter) round trip. In total, we were in the air for 117 seconds. That’s another set of records for the helicopter, even compared to the spectacular third flight.

Crew-1 returned home last night/this morning:

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FANTASTIC! Thank you for sharing...

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink V1 L25

Tue May 04, 2021 3:01 EDT

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

T-15:00

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We got to watch this take off as we were landing in Orlando. Was pretty cool to see first hand even through a plane window. Would have been way cooler to be outside though. I think the coolest part was watching it in pitch black pretty much but then as soon as the rocket broke the horizon you could see the sunlight reflecting off the exhaust and rocket and everything else was dark except the sun shining on it.

This (I think) might have been associated with the launch.

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SN15 trying again today:

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multi for those that like to flip between feeds...

https://multistream.co/p/Q-eHnr_hQxP/Test_SN15_MS

Official stream live in 30...


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Propellant loading

First one of these I'll be able to catch in a while (hopefully).

Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth

1:03 Huge Chinese rocket core from April launch falling ‘out of control’ towards Earth
WATCH: Huge Chinese rocket core from April launch falling 'out of control' towards Earth
A hulking, out-of-control Chinese rocket core is currently pinwheeling around the globe once every 90 minutes, and there’s no telling exactly when — or where — it will come crashing down to Earth in a potentially dangerous re-entry.


The object is a 30-metre tall, 21-tonne leftover from China’s Long March 5B rocket, which carried a piece of its new Tianhe space station into orbit on Apr. 29. The rocket launched its cargo into space before its core tumbled into a chaotic temporary orbit around Earth, where it’s been rapidly circling the planet while slowly falling ever since, SpaceNews reports.

The core, dubbed CZ-5B, was initially expected to make a harmless reentry, but observers say it appears to be falling out of control, making it hard to predict exactly where it will come down. Its path takes it over much of the globe, but projections suggest it could fall as far south as Chile or New Zealand, and as far north as New York State or Ontario.

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The booster was travelling at roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour while circling 300 kilometres above the Earth on Tuesday, according to tracking data. At 21 tonnes, experts say it’s large enough to avoid burning up in the atmosphere when it eventually does come down.

“It’s potentially not good,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told The Guardian. He says it will likely fall into the ocean but it could leave a swath of destruction if it falls over land, in what would be the “equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles.”

Space agencies typically have plans for disposing of such large pieces of junk, including built-in burners that can knock a core out of orbit when necessary, but that’s not the case with this rocket core. Chinese officials are essentially crossing their fingers and watching, while hoping that it lands in the ocean and not over land.

“What’s bad is that it’s really negligent on China’s part,” McDowell said. “Things more than 10 tonnes, we don’t let them fall out of the sky uncontrolled deliberately.”

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The U.S. military and European space officials are among the many groups tracking the core’s descent.

It’s just the second time that China has launched one of these rockets, and the second time that it’s been accused of being careless with the leftovers.

The first Long March 5B rocket was launched on May 5, 2020, and its core also entered temporary orbit for nearly a week. The object eventually came down and crashed near some villages in the Ivory Coast on May 11, in a fall that sparked a fierce rebuke from NASA at the time.

The object was damaged by the heat of entering the atmosphere, but a 12-metre-long pipe reportedly survived the fall along with other bits of debris.

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No deaths or injuries were reported from that incident.

Experts are hoping luck will be on everyone’s side when this latest booster falls back to Earth sometime around May 10. McDowell says it will be possible to predict the crash location about six hours before it hits.

At 21 tonnes, the rocket would be one of the largest objects to make an uncontrolled re-entry in the last 30 years. It’s still small in comparison to SkyLab, the 76-tonne NASA station that made a fiery return to Earth in 1979. Most of SkyLab fell into the Indian Ocean, but it also scattered debris across an uninhabited stretch of Australia when it came down.

There she goes!

Come on baby.

That looked really good! Not sure about the flames at the bottom though...

Get that fire out

Wow, it's BARELY on the pad!

Elon says landing nominal!

That was awesome. Can't wait for SN16. Any passengers would have survived, so definitely a win! Impressed the old style landing legs held up.

LMAO

I hope that putting out a fire every time doesn't qualify as nominal going forward! But that was insane. Congrats SpaceX!!!!

lol
My main take away was that there was zero "leaking fire" in the engine bay this time. At least not until after it landed.

It looked like it landed with 2 raptors. The new iteration must be able to throttle deeper than before.

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

It did, unless the second was turned off right before landing:

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That's got to be less than a ten feet from the edge of the landing pad...

LMAO

Oh that's cool. I forgot. Today is the 60th anniversary of Shepard's first flight.

Kinda of kills the buzz for BO's announcement.


https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...ocket-flights/

"A safe landing is a good landing."

- Dad

Eh, though I don't personally find BO to be all that exciting, anything that gets people thinking about space is a good thing. I just wish that they weren't developing a history of producing very little yet clogging up the works with legal actions.

I'll admit I'm pretty anti-BO. F* Bezos and his attempt to patent water landings. If they ever make it to orbit I'll probably be happy for them, but until they do they're just another example of why the space industry has been locked in the '60s for so long.

ULA is doing tons more than BO these days, so I'm not sure what were hearing from the BO camp is worth hearing.

Yeah, I actually like Tory Bruno a lot. They're not going to be the cheapest option out there, but they are doing solid, if not envelope pushing, work.

Despite my respect for ULA, I think I'll always be a fan of SpaceX. I just love that they accomplish something and Elon immediately says "Well, time for the next step."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Might try to refly SN15 soon</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1390569345361883136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Any fellow space geeks hear about any issues with SN15? Any damage?

I haven't been following closely, but I don't think any major issues have come out. The legs are a little crushed, but that's by design from what I can tell.

Thanks. I was just looking and Mary has some shots. Lost some tiles, which would be expected.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A few more broken/missing TPS tiles. <a href="https://t.co/w3trKnAQvq">pic.twitter.com/w3trKnAQvq</a></p>&mdash; Mary (@BocaChicaGal) <a href="https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1390385130133467152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Meanwhile, on Mars...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’ve seen what the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarsHelicopter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MarsHelicopter</a> can do – and now I’ve heard it. <br><br>�� Grab headphones and listen to the otherworldly hum of Ingenuity’s blades as it headed south to scout a new area on its fourth flight.<br><br>How I captured both sight and sound: <a href="https://t.co/95J9X3bcyO">https://t.co/95J9X3bcyO</a> <a href="https://t.co/Lw44x7kqYZ">pic.twitter.com/Lw44x7kqYZ</a></p>&mdash; NASA&#39;s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1390685833007484928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Just witnessed my first Starlink fly by. It was like 75 white ants running along in a straight line.

Don't think I'll stay up for it, but pretty cool that 10 flights is becoming a reality.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First time a Falcon rocket booster will reach double digits in flights <a href="https://t.co/wrojsaGExZ">https://t.co/wrojsaGExZ</a></p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1390955387654914052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

NASA Wallops May 8 Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern United States

https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2021/pr...-united-states

Amazing. I really was skeptical. I wonder how much it costs to get a previously flown Falcon 9 ready to fly again, and what they have to do it.

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They've moved SN15 back to the pad.

Cantwell introduced a bill to make NASA choose a second contract. Funny coincidence that Blue Origin is located in her district.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/am...os-blue-origin

SpaceX outlines plans for Starship orbital test flight

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/1...p-test-flight/

SpaceX has revealed the flight plan for the first orbital test launch of the company’s huge stainless steel Starship rocket, a 90-minute, around-the-world mission that will originate from South Texas and culminate with a controlled re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

SpaceX included an exhibit outlining the flight plan in a filing posted on the Federal Communications Commission’s website Thursday.

The test flight — without any passengers on-board — will take off from SpaceX’s Starship development facility at Boca Chica Beach in South Texas, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Starship launch site, which SpaceX calls Starbase, is the same location where technicians are rapidly building new prototpes for the giant next-generation rocket.

When fully assembled, the gigantic reusable rocket will stand nearly 400 feet (120 meters) tall, making the Starship stack the largest launcher ever built.

The booster stage, called the Super Heavy, will have as many as 28 methane-burning Raptor engines on operational flights, producing some 16 million pounds of thrust, twice the power of NASA’s Apollo-era Saturn 5 rocket. Six Raptor engines will be fixed to the bottom of the rocket’s upper stage, which is itself also named the Starship.

The Starship vehicle doubles as an upper stage and a refillable transporter to ferry people and cargo through space to destinations in Earth orbit, the moon, Mars, and other distant locations.

SpaceX is developing the Starship vehicle as a fully reusable launch and space transportation system capable of ferrying more than 100 metric tons of cargo into low Earth orbit, more than any other rocket in the world.

During an orbital launch attempt, a reusable Super Heavy first stage booster will detach from the Starship and come back to Earth for a vertical landing. Eventually, SpaceX wants to use catcher arms on the launch tower to capture the descending first stage, making it easier to configure and refuel for another mission.

The Starship will continue into orbit and deploy its payloads or travel to its deep space destination, and finally return to Earth to be flown again.

The Starship’s first orbital test flight, though audacious in scale, will aim to prove out the rocket’s basic launch and re-entry capabilities without fully testing out the complicated landing and recovery systems, according to SpaceX’s filing with the FCC.

The rocket’s Super Heavy booster will fire its cluster of up to 28 Raptor engines for around 2 minute, 49 seconds, on a track toward the east from the Starbase launch site.

About two seconds later, the 230-foot-tall (70-meter) Super Heavy booster will jettison to begin a descent to a landing in the Gulf of Mexico around 8 minutes, 15 seconds, after launch. The giant booster will aim to land about 12 miles, (20 kilometers) from shore, according to SpaceX.

Meanwhile, the Starship orbital stage will ignite its Raptor engines at T+plus 3 minutes, 56 seconds, and accelerate into orbit, heading east over the Gulf of Mexico and following a track passing between South Florida and Cuba. Cutoff of the Raptor engines is expected about 8 minutes, 41 seconds, into the mission, SpaceX said, once the rocket achieves the required orbital velocity of around 17,000 mph (more than 27,000 kilometers per hour)

“The Orbital Starship will continue on flying between the Florida Straits. It will achieve orbit until performing a powered, targeted landing approximately 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) off the northwest coast of Kauai in a soft ocean landing,” SpaceX said.

The entire flight — from liftoff in Texas to splashdown near Hawaii — will last around 90 minutes.

“SpaceX intends to collect as much data as possible during flight to quantify entry dynamics and better understand what the vehicle experiences in a flight regime that is extremely difficult to accurately predict or replicate computationally,” SpaceX said. “This data will anchor any changes in vehicle design or CONOPs (concept of operations) after the first flight and build better models for us to use in our internal simulations.”

The company did not identify a target date for the Starship program’s first orbital test launch, but SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has said the Starship’s first shot into space could happen before the end of the year.

SpaceX’s request for authority from the FCC to operate communications equipment on the orbital Starship test flight suggests the company expects the demonstration mission to occur some time between June 20 and Dec. 20.

The first Starship orbital test flight, which Musk suggested earlier this year might happen as soon as July, will follow a series of ongoing atmospheric flights intended to validate the rocket’s performance at relatively low altitudes.

The five Starship prototypes launched since December have each used three Raptor engines to power the 16-story test rockets to altitudes of more than 30,000 feet (about 10 kilometers) over South Texas. Four test rockets exploded during or soon after landing, but the most recent Starship prototype — Serial No. 15 — nailed its vertical, propulsive touchdown back at the Starbase facility.

The Starship stage, like the Super Heavy booster and SpaceX’s partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket currently in operation, will use variable thrust from its main engines to slow down for landing.

SpaceX plans more atmospheric test flights of Starship prototypes to fine-tune the rocket’s takeoff and landing. The company also plans a first “hop” test of a full-size Super Heavy booster, presumably before pressing ahead with an orbital launch attempt.

Engineers have tested coupon samples of heat shield material on the Starship’s stainless steel skin, but the orbital-class rocket will require a more extensive thermal barrier to withstand the super-hot temperatures of atmospheric re-entry.

The SN15 prototype that successfully launched and landed May 5 debuted several upgrades to the Starship rocket. The changes “will allow more speed and efficiency throughout production and flight,” SpaceX said.

The upgrades on SN15 include “a new enhanced avionics suite, updated propellant architecture in the aft skirt, and a new Raptor engine design and configuration,” SpaceX said.

The next jump in capability for the Starship rocket will come with SN20, which will be outfitted for an orbital test flight.

Musk tweeted earlier this year that the Super Heavy/Starship combination will initially have a high probability of achieving a successful launch into orbit, but it will likely take many attempts before SpaceX perfects the Starship’s re-entry and landing maneuvers from orbit.

Last month, SpaceX won a $2.9 billion contract from NASA to develop a derivative of the Starship vehicle to land astronauts on the Moon through the space agency’s Artemis program. SpaceX bested bids from Blue Origin and Dynetics to win the contract for NASA’s next human-rated lunar lander.

According to NASA’s plans, astronauts will depart Earth on the agency’s government-owned Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, then rendezvous with a Starship pre-positioned in lunar orbit. The Starship would launch from Earth without anyone on-board.

After landing on the moon, the astronauts will exit the Starship and ride an elevator down to the surface. Once their work is complete, the crew members will launch on the Starship back into lunar orbit, meet up with the Orion capsule, and return to Earth.

Last month, SpaceX won a $2.9 billion contract from NASA to develop a derivative of the Starship vehicle to land astronauts on the moon through the space agency’s Artemis program. SpaceX bested bids from Blue Origin and Dynetics to win the contract for NASA’s next human-rated lunar lander.

According to NASA’s plans, astronauts will depart Earth on the agency’s government-owned Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, then rendezvous with a Starship pre-positioned in lunar orbit. The Starship would launch from Earth without anyone on-board.

After landing on the moon, the astronauts will exit the Starship and ride an elevator down to the surface. Once their work is complete, the crew members will launch on the Starship back into lunar orbit, meet up with the Orion capsule, and return to Earth.

SpaceX has succeeded in cutting launch costs with the Falcon 9 rocket, which has a reusable first stage and payload shroud. But neither part is rapidly reusable, and the Falcon 9’s second stage is brand new for every mission.

“With Starship, we’ll hopefully reuse the whole thing,” Musk said last month. “This is a hard problem for rockets, that’s for sure. It’s taken us, we’re like 19 years in now. I think the Starship design can work. It’s just, it’s a hard thing to solve, and the support of NASA is very much appreciated in this regard. I think it’s going to work.”

Musk eventually wants to have a fleet of ocean-going platforms to recover and re-launch Super Heavy boosters and Starship rockets.

“It’s intended to be such that the booster can be used, I don’t know, a dozen times a day, basically every couple of hours,” Musk said in an X PRIZE webcast last month. “And that mostly is about reloading propellant and mounting the ship. and then the ship can probably be used, in theory, every three hours … But certainly every, say, six to nine hours. We’ll call it twice a day for the ship. And we’ll make more ships than there are boosters.”

SpaceX officials have suggested that Starships could be tasked with high-speed point-to-point intercontinental travel on Earth.

“Once we have the floating space platforms, we can position them such that the ship can come back in a single orbit,” Musk said. “So then it can be, let’s say we have three ship launches per day, that’s 1,000 flights a year, each with 100 to 150 tonnes of payload to orbit.”

“I’d say it’s only recently though that I feel that full and rapid reusability can be accomplished,” Musk said. “I wasn’t sure for a long time, but I am sure now.”

I saw that Elon responded to a spaceX fansite twitter saying that they're going to try flying the Starship from Houston to Hawaii (3/4 of the way around the earth). I assume this is the cliffs notes version of the post right above mine :)

Here's a link to the FCC doc everyone is talking about...
https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=273481&x=

I really hope they have some planes out there to record the water landings.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Starship SN15 has finally been lifted onto the Pad B launch stand at SpaceX Boca Chica. ����<a href="https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASASpaceflight</a> <a href="https://t.co/H6m3BU4pKW">pic.twitter.com/H6m3BU4pKW</a></p>&mdash; Mary (@BocaChicaGal) <a href="https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1393212668576780290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I still find it insane that they are going to launch SN15 again. Awesome, but insane. SN16 and SN17 are right around the corner, so I hope we see them soon too. Looking forward to a less cloudy day for the next launch/landing.

Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I wonder if they'll do the proof testing before the next launch. And, I presume that they'll replace the landing legs?

I'm assuming that since it's on the pad again they've already done everything except a static fire. Since they don't do testing on the weekend, maybe we'll get a static fire and launch next week?

I was wondering if they are going to use SN15 a guinea pig for rapid reusability. As in, fill up the tanks and fly. Not cryoproof and no static fire.

Considering they don't have rapid reuse down on F9 I would doubt it, but then again I didn't think they'd launch SN15 again so I obviously have no idea! :D I Wouldn't skip the static fire at a minimum, but I'm not a water tower scientist.

Some new shots, plus the landing legs being deployed:

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Didn't realize how crooked it was just before it landed.

Love that SpaceX upgraded to 4k.

Starlink launch in 45 minutes fwiw.

T-11:00

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Fourth flight of this booster... this year

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Ready for fish from outer space? If the soon to be launched Europa Clipper is successful, we'll be learning about them soon...

https://warriormaven.com/air/scienti...jupiters-moons

Was just coming here to post this. Just now seen it for the first time. Amazing stuff.

So glad they are flying again. My one and only bucket item is getting close to reality. Never thought it would.

So that was real and not some high tech animation? That's bad ass. Now do that and fly it on up to the Space Station have a couple cold ones and fly back and land.

That's why the SPCE stock I own jump 20some% today.:clap:

Starlink launch T-10:00

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I wonder if Elon even goes to these anymore.

That's the first time I've "heard" it go supersonic. Startled me.

The 100th successful launch by SpaceX on a mission in a row!

Doubt it. He doesn't even make it down there for every important launch, let alone all of these "mundane" Starlink launches.

Yikes. I'm always kind of amazed that ISS hasn't had more issues with tiny object blasting directly through it. Close call.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oof, the SSMRS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) arm (Canadarm2) was hit by MMOD (Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris) but has been checked out and all is good.<br><br>The SSRMS is absolutely vital for ISS ops. <a href="https://t.co/EsIQis6Nzs">https://t.co/EsIQis6Nzs</a></p>&mdash; Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1398369592142090247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Jesus. I wonder if the crew heard or felt it.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | CRS-22
OCISLY
Thu Jun 03, 2021 1:29pm EDT
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

T-60:00

Not as exciting as when it's people, but at least it's not just another Starlink launch. :)

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