Posted on 05/12/2019 6:14:54 AM PDT by Moonman62
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has published the first official photo of the company’s near-final Starlink design and confirmed that Falcon 9 will launch a staggering 60 satellites on May 15th.
Known internally as Starlink v0.9, this mission will not be the first launch of operational satellites, but it will be the first internal SpaceX mission with a dedicated Falcon 9 launch. Additionally, the payload will be the heaviest yet launched by SpaceX, signifying an extraordinarily ambitious first step towards realizing the company’s ~12,000-satellite Starlink megaconstellation.
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This is great but when are they going to get to Uranus?
(Immature FReeper comment now added. Intelligent conversation can proceed)
Skynet.
That’s a lot of eggs in one basket.
Thanks. Someone had to say it...
5 dozen.
“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.”
And I was just the guy to do it! :)
I know the sky is big, but how much crap can we put up there before they all start “pinballing” around.
"According to Musk, SpaceX has actually entirely gotten rid of a satellite-dispenser middle-man, instead relying on the structure of the satellites themselves to act as their own launch adapters and deployment mechanisms."'
Starlink is a satellite constellation development project underway by ... SpaceX, to develop a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and requisite customer ground transceivers to implement a new space-based Internet communication system. SpaceX also plans to sell satellites that use a satellite bus that may be used for military, scientific or exploratory purposes.
Did you detect Klingons?
SpaceX also plans to sell satellites that use a satellite bus that may be used for military, scientific or exploratory purposes.
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Satellites are much more profitable than rockets.
I am a big fan of privatized space.
Unfortunately I am not a big fan of Elon Musk, who has a long history of over promising and under delivering with Tesla.
Yet Tesla is the leading electric car company. When Musk’s goals aren’t met he’s still far ahead of anybody else.
He’s done the same with SpaceX.
Is that the Fairing they fished out of the ocean ?
Followers of SpaceX don’t think there’s been enough time to refurbish them. Good question, though.
However, this is the fourth flight of the first stage, a new record.
Will this be able to get around the firewalls that many nations have put in to limit the information that their citizens can access? If so, it might do for the current crop of totalitarians what the tax machine did to the Warsaw Pact 30 years ago.
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