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CO, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:02:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:04:36 PM EDT
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T minus 8:45:00.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:06:46 PM EDT
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Getting ready to move outside.
About 40% OVC but should still be able to see it light up the sky. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:09:24 PM EDT
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Pretty clear here
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:14:08 PM EDT
[#5]
Yay
In for the record landing |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:14:20 PM EDT
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:16:05 PM EDT
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Shitty cloud cover. Cannot see shit.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:17:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:18:21 PM EDT
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Wow. Seven launches for that booster.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:18:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: webtaz99]
[#10]
Another smooth launch.
7th run for this booster! Crossing my fingers for the landing. WOOHOO! STUCK THE LANDING! |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:19:10 PM EDT
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Caught it all the way up to booster sep !
Nice ! |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:22:11 PM EDT
[#12]
nailed it
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:22:31 PM EDT
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Awesome
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:22:46 PM EDT
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So cool.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:22:47 PM EDT
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Landing on a barge never gets old.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:23:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dagger41: Caught it all the way up to booster sep ! Nice ! How far away are you? |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:23:22 PM EDT
[#17]
Another awesome launch...nailed it!
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:24:08 PM EDT
[#18]
🇺🇸
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:24:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJE: How far away are you? As the crow flies about 8 miles. |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:25:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By brich2929: 🇺🇸 It is like the only thing this country has going for it these days. 
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:26:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dagger41: Caught it all the way up to booster sep ! Nice ! Neat colors come outa that thing when it gets up high |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:28:27 PM EDT
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They make this look easy
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:28:46 PM EDT
[#23]
Saw it from the west coast. One of the brightest launch I’ve seen from my house.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:33:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sledhead907: Landing on a barge never gets old. I tend to think of it in terms of. Those boosters are a bit bigger, going just a smidgeon faster than an FA18 and those barges are a bit smaller than a Nimitz class. 
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:34:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JoseCuervo: It is like the only thing this country has going for it these days. And this might prove to be the thing that really matters. If we can get power sats and colonize the moon then no other country will have a chance of keeping up. |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:39:21 PM EDT
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EXCELLENT!
Seventh launch and recovery of the same booster and I believe uses 2 and 3 of the same fairing halves. Nearly 960 Star Links in orbit. Looking forward to the cold, clear Winter skies to view them, the ISS and other satellites! (Only thing I like about Winter, and better ELF and VLF and 160M Amateur radio reception.) |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:42:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Scoot03]
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Long exposure from 35 miles west of Cape... low clouds blocked launch, can see MECO and 2nd stage ingnition...
[url=https://ibb.co/qN68Kj7] 
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:52:37 PM EDT
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What does Musk mean by a "life leader launch"?
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:55:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RiverSwine45: Neat colors come outa that thing when it gets up high If it starts turning green its pants shitting time. LOL |
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IL, USA
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:58:06 PM EDT
[#30]
Space X's Kate Tice.
I'd give here a Nominal Orbital Insertion. 
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Posted: 11/24/2020 10:59:07 PM EDT
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We did 13 hours at Magic Kingdom, walked out to the bus and the driver had the launch streaming and said it was t-mini 1 min.
 So we set up shop and watched the launch from Disney to end our day. It's not a wall hanger but we were there! First night launch in person too.  |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 11:04:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SparticleBrane: What does Musk mean by a "life leader launch"? |
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Posted: 11/24/2020 11:04:53 PM EDT
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Also, I could see it from my place in NC, about 230 miles from the coast. It was about 2/3rd's of the way down between the moon and the horizon, a constant glow streaking across the sky.
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Posted: 11/24/2020 11:05:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky: I assumed the translation to mean "This booster is the leading lifespan of all the boosters so far, so things that haven't broken yet might start breaking now - but hopefully not..." Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky: Originally Posted By SparticleBrane: What does Musk mean by a "life leader launch"? Gotcha, that makes sense. |
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NE, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2020 12:03:38 AM EDT
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so what is their reliability like on these launches? i would like to make a trip down to see spme of these sometime, but planning around weather delays or whatever seems.... tedious
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2020 12:20:24 AM EDT
[#36]
Saw it from pop century disneyworld.
Badass. You can definitely get a good look from Disney! |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 12:22:19 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JoseCuervo]
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saltydecimator: so what is their reliability like on these launches? i would like to make a trip down to see spme of these sometime, but planning around weather delays or whatever seems.... tedious Reliability shouldn't (and cannot be) based on the weather.. Thankfully, based on the engineering it is great so far! |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2020 12:27:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saltydecimator: so what is their reliability like on these launches? i would like to make a trip down to see spme of these sometime, but planning around weather delays or whatever seems.... tedious The running advice is. 1. Take as long as you can off. 2. Be ready to show up through as many delays as possible. 3. If you have extra days after launch go to mouseworld. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2020 12:31:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saltydecimator: so what is their reliability like on these launches? i would like to make a trip down to see spme of these sometime, but planning around weather delays or whatever seems.... tedious Weather impacts are common. Far less likely are rocket system delays. The most recent may have been the GPS III SV4 launch that had some sort of coating in lines that aborted the engine firing. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 7:27:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By saltydecimator: so what is their reliability like on these launches? i would like to make a trip down to see spme of these sometime, but planning around weather delays or whatever seems.... tedious I'll be at Universal Dec 26-30th. Hoping something will launch in that amount of time, we'll be heading to the cape to watch. |
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Posted: 11/26/2020 9:35:52 AM EDT
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Interesting graph on the world space industry:
 SpaceX is now leveraging it's huge advantages in launch and satellite costs to get into the meaty part of the space industry |
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Posted: 11/28/2020 10:23:58 AM EDT
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Booster is coming back to port... she dirty
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Posted: 11/28/2020 10:30:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/28/2020 5:16:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky: I assumed the translation to mean "This booster is the leading lifespan of all the boosters so far, so things that haven't broken yet might start breaking now - but hopefully not..." Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky: Originally Posted By SparticleBrane: What does Musk mean by a "life leader launch"? As boosters get older, do they use them for unmanned flights only, just in case? |
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Posted: 11/28/2020 6:10:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Andr0id: As boosters get older, do they use them for unmanned flights only, just in case? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Andr0id: Originally Posted By AZ_Sky: Originally Posted By SparticleBrane: What does Musk mean by a "life leader launch"? As boosters get older, do they use them for unmanned flights only, just in case? Right now; manned flights are limited to certain boosters that NASA has signed off on. Originally they were going to be new only (as originally were all national security launches) but now they're saying that Crew-2 will use Crew-1's booster. I personally think that the 'fleet leaders' will probably be used for Starlink launches only, with a possible expandable booster launch in there from time to time (no landing). Keep in mind that a fully expendable Falcon 9 can throw almost as much weight as a fully-recoverable Falcon Heavy; so if you've got a well-used booster that probably is most of the way through it's life anyway... it makes sense to use 1 core instead of 3. |
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Posted: 11/28/2020 10:08:30 PM EDT
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Similar to race cars, a dirty rocket is a happy rocket.
Like how they don't was Le Mans winners  
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Posted: 11/29/2020 3:03:32 PM EDT
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Cool full tracking shot of the launch at Vandenberg:
 SpaceX Sentinel 6 Launch Remix - Tracking The Booster Scott Manley on it, and some cool Rocketlab footage:  Stunning Views of Rocketlab and SpaceX Launches |
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Posted: 12/3/2020 10:24:17 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2020 1:10:07 PM EDT
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SiriusXM-7 is now planning to launch on the 10th
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/3/2020 4:44:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: AmericanPeople]
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1) Background info: Source
"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station." 2) Launch window: 11:17 AM EDT (6 December 2020) 3) Launch Site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida 4) Webcast viewing options: a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 20 minutes before liftoff) b. You Tube  CRS-21 Mission c. Likely on NASA TV such as here: NASA TV 5) Launch preparations: a. OCISLY on its way. Source: SpaceXFleet.com twitter  b. Payload and booster:  6) First stage return/disposal: OCISLY ocean ship recovery 7) Mission press kit: Now online here 8) Launch to deployment events/timeline: Minutes:Seconds after lift-off 2:30 First stage MECO (main engine cutoff) 2:41 Second stage starts 6:37 1st stage entry burn begins 8:38 1st stage landing 11:49 Dragon separates from second stage 12:35 Dragon nosecone opening begins |
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