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03-05-2018, 10:06 AM | #1726 |
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Heads up that Hispasat should be flying late tonight. Recovery attempt has apparently been called off due to poor conditions at the landing site, so that'll be interesting to see how they handle it.
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03-05-2018, 10:24 PM | #1727 |
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T-1h
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03-05-2018, 11:46 PM | #1728 |
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Still cool. And it's Davie Jones' locker for the first stage.
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03-06-2018, 03:46 PM | #1729 |
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A city bus to geostationary orbit? Nice.
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03-09-2018, 08:58 PM | #1730 |
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I hadn't noticed this on the horizon until today. April could be a fun month.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-thr...aunches-month/ SpaceX aims for 3 rocket launches in a single week, 6 launches in 1 month By Eric Ralph Posted on March 8, 2018 Tailing an intense February that saw SpaceX successfully complete inaugural launches of both Falcon Heavy and two Starlink prototype satellites, the next three weeks of March are likely to be relatively quiet. However, by all appearances, SpaceX is preparing for a frenetic end-of-month that could include three Falcon 9 launches from three separate SpaceX launch pads, all in a single week, and as many as six launches total between March 29 and April 30. (more at the link) |
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03-10-2018, 06:14 PM | #1731 |
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Falcon Heavy highlight video. Center core splashdown footage is at 1:11, so that's fun(ish).
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03-10-2018, 08:41 PM | #1732 |
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When the cores are coming down they aim for a location next to the barge and only divert to on the barge at the last minute if everything is ok. This was going too fast, so no diversion. |
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03-10-2018, 09:10 PM | #1733 |
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03-23-2018, 05:54 PM | #1734 |
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In case anyone uses Facebook to keep track of SpaceX stuff...
Elon Musk has removed Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages after Twitter challenge |
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03-23-2018, 06:16 PM | #1735 | |
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Who needs facebook when you have Daface? No really, Musk is the man.... but the facebook feed was nice. |
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03-23-2018, 09:14 PM | #1736 |
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03-27-2018, 02:20 PM | #1737 |
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Iridium's slipping, for once not due to a SpaceX issue.
Should be an exciting weekend with CRS-14 on deck for next Monday. ----- EDIT: Looks like they figured it out, so date has been moved back UP.
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03-29-2018, 02:01 PM | #1738 |
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(Less than) 24-hour bump for Iridium Next 5. I may have to come in to work a little early tomorrow to catch it.
No landing for either this or CRS-14, though. I understand why they're burning through their stockpile, but it doesn't make for very exciting webcasts. |
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03-29-2018, 09:18 PM | #1739 |
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SpaceX won approval from the FCC for their satellite internet constellation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/fcc-...-services.html If they do it, it'd be a minimum of 45 launches and up to 250 to get it going. Guess they're counting on this reusability thing to actually work because that's a **** ton of launches. |
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03-30-2018, 06:54 AM | #1740 |
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Bump.
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