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khorum
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Another 60 starlink satellites was supposed to launch on a falcon 9 doing its fourth flight tomorrow morning but it got scrubbed to Sunday.
The first crewed dragon flight is looking like it's sticking to that May 7th launch:
www.engadget.com
The first crewed dragon flight is looking like it's sticking to that May 7th launch:
The first crewed SpaceX flight could happen around May 7th
Last month, Elon Musk said he expected the SpaceX Crew Dragon to launch, with astronauts onboard, sometime between April and June. Now, Ars Technica's Eric Berger reports that first crewed flight could take off on May 7th. Though, due to "a number of variables not hardware related" the launch...
www.engadget.com
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Tuco
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Pretty pumped for the first crewed SpaceX flight, not really because it's spacex but because it'll be the first USA manned mission in almost ten years. Which is shameful that it took this long.Another 60 starlink satellites was supposed to launch on a falcon 9 doing its fourth flight tomorrow morning but it got scrubbed to Sunday.
The first crewed dragon flight is looking like it's sticking to that May 7th launch:
The first crewed SpaceX flight could happen around May 7th
Last month, Elon Musk said he expected the SpaceX Crew Dragon to launch, with astronauts onboard, sometime between April and June. Now, Ars Technica's Eric Berger reports that first crewed flight could take off on May 7th. Though, due to "a number of variables not hardware related" the launch...
SpaceX’s Explosive Test May Launch Year of Renewed Human Spaceflight (Published 2020)
A NASA program could be ready to launch astronauts to orbit once again, and the number of people traveling to space could surge.
Meanwhile the jackholes in the ULA should probably be taken to court and, if I got my way, the executives would be executed on boeing/lockheed's front lawn.
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Ukerric
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Is this the 4th launch? So there will be 240 up there? I heard they're thinking of doing an IPO on starlink. It would be tempting to put a grand or two into them just in case they change the world. It's hard to see how it won't be transformational tech if it works and they have a huge advantage over any of their competitors because of SpaceX.
khorum
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They might be prioritizing the transatlantic connection, which would chop up to 12ms off transatlantic forex trading. Irony of ironies, not only will this make starlink an IMMEDIATE self-funding exercise from the HFT folks, it would make the UK __THE__ undisputed forex trading hub for European markets for the foreseeable future----just as the Brits are exiting the EU and relieving them of the EU's ridiculous regulations.
So if anything look at HFT outfits or EU futures bridging funds to benefit the soonest. Depending on how Boris Johnson plays this out, if they get locked into a US trade pact AND starlink between London and NY is done, the UK is poised to be the global financial superpower upon which Hong Kong and Singapore were once modelled upon.
I dunno how to timestamp these youtube embeds... the HFT "killer app" for starlink starts at 5:18ish tho
So if anything look at HFT outfits or EU futures bridging funds to benefit the soonest. Depending on how Boris Johnson plays this out, if they get locked into a US trade pact AND starlink between London and NY is done, the UK is poised to be the global financial superpower upon which Hong Kong and Singapore were once modelled upon.
I dunno how to timestamp these youtube embeds... the HFT "killer app" for starlink starts at 5:18ish tho
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Ukerric
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239. They had an initial batch of 2 test satellites, but 3 of the first launch failed and have/will soon de-orbit.
They're thinking about it, apparently yes. It would gives them a good cash infusion for their other projects, and it probably allows them to bring in Google who had already invested in SpaceX mostly for that satellite constellation.
Their main competition (Branson) is currently scheduled to use Soyuz rockets. But they're already looking at potentially... get launched by SpaceX as well.
Ukerric
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Launch successful, landing... not so successful.
You see a nice view of the droneship landing platform, you hear the controller calling out "landing gear deployed" then nothing for 10s... and a small cloud of vapor/smoke coming out from just outside de camera...
khorum
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NASA's mandated design freeze on the block 5 means whatever went wrong would have to be fixed in production. That would've been the 4th landing for that rocket so whatever failed had to have been stresses/metal fatigue on components missed during refurbishment.
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Ukerric
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People noticed (I did as well) some stuff tearing out of the 1st stage just before re-entry burn. This is the point where it falls off (just next to the left grid fin):
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khorum
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Those fins are eight feet long and six feet wide and whatever broke off was foreshortened on the video so it's probably even bigger than that. Still doesn't seem like anything structurally critical or it wouldn't have survived the stresses enough to land a few feet away from the barge.
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SpaceX teams up with space tourism agency to sell rides aboard its spacecraft
SpaceX has signed a deal with a space tourism company to organize a trip orbiting the Earth for a handful of adventurous travelers.
www.cnn.com
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Several weeks due to the sensitivity of the equipment or the lack of hammer power and/or hammer control?
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