Perpetual SpaceX Thread (next launch 2018-03-29 - Iridium NEXT (Flight 5))

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Thebobo

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Thebobo

Lifer
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Looking for a launch this Saturday don't have a time yet. If anyone has?


SpaceX
Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting September 8 launch of Telstar 18 VANTAGE from Pad 40 in Florida.

10:21 AM - Sep 5, 2018
 

Thebobo

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Set my alarm clock woke up and it s was pushed back another hour later reset woke up and feel asleep like a minute into it lol.

Full flight

 

Thebobo

Lifer
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Good article from ARS technica about the early days of SpaceX and how they almost crashed. :/ Be a good premises for a book and even a movie.

Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin

They bunked in a double-wide trailer, cramming inside on cots and sleeping bags, as many as a dozen at a time. In the mornings, they feasted on steaming plates of scrambled eggs. At night, beneath some of the darkest skies on Earth, they grilled steaks and wondered if the heavens above were beyond their reach. Kids, most of them, existed alone on a tiny speck of an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It was the middle of nowhere, really.

And they worked. They worked desperately—tinkering, testing, and fixing—hoping that nothing would go wrong this time. Already, their small rocket had failed three times. One more launch anomaly likely meant the end of Space Exploration Technologies.

Continue -> https://arstechnica.com/science/201...weeks-that-saved-spacex-from-ruin/?comments=1
 

Thebobo

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Thanks!

And while we're at it, next launch;

Oct. 6 Falcon 9 • SAOCOM 1A
Launch time: TBD

Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SAOCOM 1A for CONAE, Argentina’s space agency. SAOCOM 1A is the first of two SAOCOM 1-series Earth observation satellites designed to provide radar imagery to help emergency responders and monitor the environment, including the collection of soil moisture measurements. Delayed from Sept. 28. [Sept. 21]
 

Thebobo

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Update

Liftoff is currently scheduled for 7:22 p.m. PDT, 10:22 p.m. EDT Sunday, 7 October. They will be landing the booster back on ground for the first time at Vandenberg. So something new. Its kinda hilly around there should look cool.

http://www.americaspace.com/2018/10...andenberg-with-sunday-night-saocom-1a-launch/

Following a smooth Static Fire Test of its nine Merlin 1D+ first-stage engines on Tuesday, 2 October, SpaceX stands ready to launch—and land—its first Falcon 9 booster on solid ground this weekend, as it undertakes an ambitious mission to deliver Argentina’s SAOCOM-1A radar-imaging satellite into orbit. Liftoff is currently scheduled for 7:22 p.m. PDT (10:22 p.m. EDT) Sunday, 7 October, and will mark the 17th SpaceX launch of 2018, placing the Hawthorne, Calif.-based organization in pole position to eclipse its “personal best” of 18 missions, achieved in 2017. Launch was originally scheduled for Saturday evening, but was postponed 24 hours, to enable SpaceX “to complete pre-flight vehicle checkouts”.

But the real significance of Saturday’s flight will be the first Return to Launch Site (RTLS) on the West Coast. Although “land” landings have become relatively commonplace on the East Coast, with first-stage boosters having alighted at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on no fewer than 11 occasions since December 2015, the resounding sonic boom and blazing fireshow of a rocket returning from the edge of space has not yet been seen at Vandenberg.
 

PottedMeat

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nice landing. there should be some great ground videos soon.



edit:
is the camera cocked over or is the first stage tilted?
 

Thebobo

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Delay till Saturday.

SpaceX Delays Historic Small-Satellite Launch (Again)

Wednesday's launch attempt of Spaceflight SSO-A from Vandenberg Air Force Base is currently no-go due to extreme high-altitude winds that violate Range requirements. Vehicle and payloads are healthy. We will announce a new launch date once confirmed with the Range.
https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1067591952122531840
6,3268:32 PM - Nov 27, 2018
 

Thebobo

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Now Sunday 11 AM EST

SpaceX rocket launch delayed by weather rescheduled for this sunday

A Falcon 9 rocket and its collection of satellites will try to get off the ground Sunday morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Liftoff of the Space Exploration Technologies rocket is scheduled to occur between 10:32 a.m. and 11:01 a.m. from Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base. The booster will carry Spaceflight Industries payload dubbed SSO-A: SmallSat Express. The launch has been delayed twice to give the team more time for pre-flight chores and then to wait out rainy, windy weather.
 
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