Posted on 05/09/2024 8:53:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 20 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 9 (12:30 a.m. EDT / 0430 UTC). The first-stage booster, making its fourth flight, will land on the drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' about eight and a half minutes into the flight.
The Starlink 8-2 mission includes 13 satellites capable of providing direct to cellphone services.
Our live coverage with commentary from Will Robinson-Smith will begin about 30 minutes before launch.
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Watching. Some low level clouds here but should be a decent view.
“Will Robinson-Smith”? Is his husband a Doctor named Zachary?
Watching in La Habra...
someones parents loved lost in space. :)
Great view from Arizona!
Saw launch thru staging from my home in Bakersfield, live the early evening and night time launches
No-go tonight...cloud cover too heavy to see launch from my pad. Bummed.
Thanx for the post! I enjoyed watching it. :)
I just spotted your post and followed the link to YouTube...just in time to catch ignition! I’m still in awe what Musk and his team of outstanding engineers have done. He has really revolutionized space. I heard a day or two ago that the ESA Ariane 6 is in big financial trouble because of high costs to orbit.
This was a GREAT launch. I watched a bit on YouTube, then about 5-8 min outside to see the balance, until the 2nd stage disappeared in the southern sky. Just when I was heading inside I saw the rocket plume from the 1st stage doing it’s re-entry burn, before it disappeared below the nearby hills. Very impressive, considering I walked out about 40 feet to see the show!
Thanks Elon!
Ed
you are welcome. I figured we all needed a change
Thanks for posting this. We got to see launch through landing of booster. Amazing.
Only once have I been able to see the whole show from Myrtle Beach. The rocket heading up the coast overhead and then the boosters coming down directly out over the ocean and disappearing under the horizon to the drone barge(s). The weather has just never cooperated other times I was there.
Maybe the creators never intended it, but I thought Dr Smith actually became the number one character on the show.
Thank you for the link to the launch. Amazing!
It wasn’t intended. Guy Williams was supposed to be the main character.
I figured that, but it looked to me, like Johnathan Harris became the most favorite person on the Show. I looked up his real name, and I could see why he changed it to Harris.
I live in the woods with a terrible cable system that is lousy.
I just got a Starling satellite system to try out.
So far it is providing 10x the bandwidth, and it won’t go out every time the electricity goes out.
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