SpaceX and other space stuff

[Winslow]

I got a mental image of you, seated aboard the capsule, with your hands in the air like some folk do on roller coasters LOL.

I like it! Even if my face were stretched back toward my ears in a grotesque approximation of a smile, I'd probably still get a kick out of the ride!

 

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Starlink launch for Friday, 24 Jan, set at 10:54am EST.

 

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Poopy. Reset launch again.

Monday, 27 Jan, 9:49 am EST.

 

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Starlink live at 9:50AM EST (just over an hour):



Edit: BAH! Delayed 24 hours yet again!

 

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Poopy!

 

[Winslow]

BAH! Delayed 24 hours yet again!

Nice break for those of us slow to get on the itnertubes today though...

 

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Live in 15 minutes:

 

[TheDirtyLowDown]

Looks like another weather-related scrub...
"Liftoff is now set for Wednesday (Jan. 29) at 9:06 a.m. EST (1406 GMT)."

 

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rats

 

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Nice break for those of us slow to get on the itnertubes today though...

That was me this morning LOL.

Alright everyone, good drill today, good drill.

 

[Winslow]

Ach! Obligations might mean I have to watch the replay later. (Is it wrong to hope for another scrub?)

Meanwhile, elsewhere in orbit today, there's some space junk cranking up the Kessler pucker factor:

2 satellites will narrowly avoid colliding at 32,800 mph over Pittsburgh on Wednesday | Live Science

 

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Thanks for posting the link about the possible satellite collision. I'm aware of the space junk problem, but what got my attention was two full sized satellites (not debris and satellite), one the size of a truck, possibly passing within 50 and 100ft (15 to 30 meters) of each other. Wow! And at about 9 miles per second (almost 15 kilometers per second).

Anyway, standing by for launch. Less than an hour ago, weather at 90% GO.

 

[Winslow]

Thanks for posting the link about the possible satellite collision. I'm aware of the space junk problem, but what got my attention was two full sized satellites (not debris and satellite), one the size of a truck, possibly passing within 50 and 100ft (15 to 30 meters) of each other. Wow! And at about 9 miles per second (almost 15 kilometers per second).

Yeah, it's a vivid illustrator of the problem.

Anyway, standing by for launch. Less than an hour ago, weather at 90% GO.

Woot! Made it back in time!

 

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Arrrgh! Slept late! Tuned in just in time to see a booster landed on a drone ship!

 

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1st stage landed safely on the drone ship. Vid didn't cut out this time when close to deck, so watched it daintily land itself LOL.

 

[Winslow]

NICE!!!! Congrats, SpaceX!!!!

 

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Slept late! Tuned in just in time to see a booster landed on a drone ship!

Good morning, sunshine.

 

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On the replay: T+0:57 - great shot of the booster going supersonic! Best I've seen!

 

[Winslow]

...space junk problem...

Oh, and here's the space junk news from just two days ago:
Boeing and DirecTV are scrambling to move a satellite before it explodes

 

[Winslow]

Meanwhile, SpaceX's filler music is always cool. In my imagination, I'm grooving in a space disco.

(I'm also quite a few years younger so that scenario doesn't look weird.)