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Post by Moon pigeon on Feb 15, 2020 20:18:08 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Feb 17, 2020 16:02:16 GMT
Launch was successful. Get ready for more UFO reports....sigh.....
Here's how to watch SpaceX launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit today
By Tariq Malik 2 hours ago
Liftoff is set for 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT).
SpaceX's Starlink project is a large-scale space operation to provide global access to high-speed internet using a megaconstellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. The company envisions an initial fleet of 12,000 satellites, but could offer minimal service with 240 satellites and offer moderate coverage with 800 satellites, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said.
To date, SpaceX has launched four batches of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit since mid-2019 (two of those flights in January of this year) for a total of 240 satellites, so far. Today's launch will boost that number up to 300 satellites.
www.space.com/spacex-starlink-4-internet-satellites-launch-webcast.html
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Post by Moon pigeon on Feb 18, 2020 19:30:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 8:07:33 GMT
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Post by SysConfig on Feb 23, 2020 9:29:54 GMT
You beat me to it Cliff ..Foiled again! Flat Earthers now have a martyr...rumors are he hit the glass dome...he almost made it to the edge too...but there are plenty of people with steam rockets..and an army of willing volunteers..just wait and see..someone didn't want him telling us what he saw..sure we can ask airline pilots what they see...but they all have some severe NDAs they sign...and it's working cuz none of them are saying anything.. One witness at the event who wished to remain anonymous pointed at an object which should not be there as the airspace had been cleared just for this launch. I've circled the object at the time the witness was heard yelling ..over there..up there..there's something over there.. I have no idea what it was..it doesnt look like a plane or a drone that I'm familiar with, and is needless to say, but I'll say it anyway..baffling we may never get an answer..but certainly new possibilities surface with more questions than answers which is all too familiar territory for UCB ers here.
 RIP Mad Mike
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Post by swamprat on Mar 7, 2020 16:11:26 GMT
SpaceX launches cargo toward space station, aces 50th rocket landing
By Amy Thompson 11 hours ago
SpaceX's Dragon capsule should arrive at the orbiting lab early Monday (March 9).
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — SpaceX successfully launched an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft for NASA today (March 6), sending fresh supplies toward the International Space Station (ISS) — and also sticking another rocket landing, the 50th for the company overall.
The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket used in today’s flight is a veteran; its first stage also lofted the previous Dragon cargo mission, in December 2019. The rocket blasted off from Pad 40 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:50 p.m. EST (0450 GMT on Saturday, March 7), illuminating the skies above Florida’s Space Coast.
As the rocket roared to life, car alarms at the press site were triggered, barely audible above the more than 1 million lbs. of thrust generated by the rocket’s engines.
Approximately 8 minutes after liftoff, the booster’s engines relit as part of the landing process. Sonic booms cracked across the sky as the rocket stuck its landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 facility at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX, which prioritizes the development of reusable spaceflight systems, has now pulled off 50 such touchdowns during orbital missions to date.
This Dragon capsule is a veteran as well, having reached the ISS twice before, in February 2017 and December 2018. If all goes according to plan, the capsule will arrive at the ISS for the third time early on Monday morning (March 9).
The mission that kicked off tonight, dubbed CRS-20, is the final flight under SpaceX's first commercial resupply services contract with NASA, which was signed in 2008 and is valued at $1.6 billion.
The first Dragon reached the ISS in 2012, becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever to do so. Twenty flights later, this version of the Dragon will soon retire.
Beginning in October of this year, all future resupply missions will feature SpaceX's upgraded Dragon 2 capsule. That version will be capable of flying five times whereas each Dragon 1 was rated to fly just three times.
Dragon 1 has to berth with the space station via robotic arm, whereas Dragon 2 will dock itself to the orbital outpost. The new capsule features many other upgrades as well.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches an uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station on March 6, 2020. (Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX has also built a crew-carrying capsule, called (appropriately enough) Crew Dragon. Crew Dragon first flew a year ago, reaching the space station on SpaceX's uncrewed Demo-1 mission. The crew spacecraft will soon fly astronauts to the orbiting lab on a mission called Demo-2, which could launch as soon as early May. (SpaceX holds a multibillion-dollar NASA contract to fly astronauts to and from the ISS. This deal is separate from the company's cargo contract.)
Crew Dragon has special systems unique to carrying crew — for example, life support systems, seats and a launch escape system.
Tucked inside today’s cargo Dragon is more than 4,300 lbs. (1,950 kilograms) of supplies, including a bevy of research experiments that will support more than 25 science investigations over the course of the space station's expeditions 62 and 63.
Included in that cargo is a unique experiment that will look at how stem cells grow in microgravity. Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta aim to understand how stem cells transition into heart muscle cells in microgravity. Such knowledge could aid in the treatment of heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States, NASA officials said.
Another investigation is looking at intestine function. Researchers are sending tissue chips to the space station that will help them better understand organ function and the body’s immune system response in stressful situations.
Dragon is one of two uncrewed cargo vehicles currently contracted by NASA to keep the space station stocked. The other is Cygnus, which is flown by Virginia-based company Northrop Grumman.
Since Dragon first docked with the space station in 2012, the spacecraft has delivered more than 95,000 lbs. (43,000 kg) of cargo and returned more than 76,000 lbs. (34,475 kg) of research.
The spacecraft will stay at the space station for about a month before returning to Earth with precious research aboard.
www.space.com/spacex-launches-cargo-international-space-station.html
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Post by swamprat on Mar 15, 2020 13:53:26 GMT
SpaceX was scheduled to launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket today, March 15, from SpaceX's pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 9:22 a.m. EDT (1322 GMT). The launch was scrubbed at T minus zero due to engine power issues.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 8:40:00 GMT
NASA, SpaceX Target May for 1st Crew Dragon Launch with Astronauts to ISS – But Will it Happen with COVID-19 Crisis?
Ken Kremer CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and SpaceX have jointly announced that they are targeting May – roughly two months or so from now – for the first launch of the private Crew Dragon ferry ship with two agency astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Demo-2 mission from the Florida Space Coast. That is if it can go forward amidst the skyrocketing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic disrupting virtually every aspect of life on Planet Earth right now Furthermore the Demo-2 mission – currently slated for launch no earlier than mid to late May – carrying NASA astronauts NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley would be historic – marking the resumption of American astronaut launches from American soil on American rockets for the first time since NASA’s shuttles were forcibly retired in 2011. “This mission will be the return of human spaceflight launch capabilities to the United States and the first launch of American astronauts aboard an American rocket and spacecraft since the final space shuttle mission on July 8, 2011,” NASA said in a media advisory. Continue here : www.spaceupclose.com/2020/03/nasa-spacex-target-may-for-1st-crew-dragon-launch-with-astronauts-to-iss-but-will-it-happen/?fbclid=IwAR0xZa373DTGajDbzyV_GOVSJ4ARYRz8Mbsozl_YUIXe1DT94S-dr4CMMnU
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 2:07:42 GMT
SpaceX was scheduled to launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket today, March 15, from SpaceX's pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 9:22 a.m. EDT (1322 GMT). The launch was scrubbed at T minus zero due to engine power issues. I just observed over 30 of them fly over. Last I checked they were still coming (ascending). . . . . . . . . .
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 1:47:35 GMT
SpaceX was scheduled to launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket today, March 15, from SpaceX's pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 9:22 a.m. EDT (1322 GMT). The launch was scrubbed at T minus zero due to engine power issues. I just observed over 30 of them fly over. Last I checked they were still coming (ascending). . . . . . . . . . Happening now. This time instead of from South ( Pleiades in Taurus) to North towards Polaris (a Ursa Minor) they are now traveling from (N) West To due (N)East,as I write this...…. Same ones ? Different set of sats ? From central U.S. they appeared from Ursa Minor to Ursa Major this time. Different trajectory…(set?) ? Didn't bother to look it up this time, what a mess for a.p. (astro-photography). Edit : Major bummer !  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 15:56:18 GMT
50 years ago today...
Apollo 13: ‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’
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Post by HAL on Apr 13, 2020 22:03:34 GMT
Cliff,
..Didn't bother to look it up this time, what a mess for a.p. (astro-photography)...
When they are all up it will make long exposure photography virtually impossible.
How could this ever have been allowed to happen ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 15:59:04 GMT
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Post by HAL on Apr 19, 2020 21:19:16 GMT
Just watched the Starlink sats pass by. To my East about an hour ago.
I got a call from my one of my daughters asking me to look outside and tell her what I saw.
I've been wanting to see them for a while.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 13:56:47 GMT
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