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SpaceX to launch its next Starlink fleet and 2 BlackSky satellites tonight. Watch it live!
Space.Com ^ | 12/2/21 | SpaceX

Posted on 12/02/2021 10:39:07 AM PST by srmanuel

The weather should be fantastic, not a cloud in the sky tonight over Florida, if you are anywhere between Jacksonville and Miami, you can probably see the launch and the landing on the recovery ships.....

The satellites being launched are phase 2 of the Starlink rollout and are using lasers to communicate between satellites....


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: spacex; starlink

1 posted on 12/02/2021 10:39:07 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel
Blacksky?


2 posted on 12/02/2021 10:41:28 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

If you think Blacksky is bad then you better not read this...

https://graduateway.com/review-of-the-nigsat-2-and-nigsat-x-and-its-implication-on-nigeria-466/


3 posted on 12/02/2021 11:01:55 AM PST by sipow
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To: sipow

LOL.


4 posted on 12/02/2021 11:02:44 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: srmanuel

If SpaceX does not solve its Raptor engine manufacturing problems, Starlink ends and the entirety of SpaceX will go bankrupt.


5 posted on 12/02/2021 11:30:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

I actually think Elon is being overly dramatic here. SpaceX is his baby. He has plenty of personal funds to save it and I think he will if it’s necessary.


6 posted on 12/02/2021 11:36:31 AM PST by POWG
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To: srmanuel

Never gets old watching SpaceX launch and attempt a booster landing on a ship.


7 posted on 12/02/2021 11:45:35 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: PIF

He is/has taken steps to turn production around.
He fired 2 top production managers.
And is taking other measures, I’m sure.


8 posted on 12/02/2021 11:47:57 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: srmanuel

Dear Elon,

Hi, I’m a pretty crappy banjo player and I was wondering if you needed any help pushing your employees out of the lunch room and back to the office give me a ring. I can entertain at the cafeteria a coupla days a week and that’ll get ‘em out of there.


9 posted on 12/02/2021 11:57:09 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: PIF

Unlikely that SpaceX won’t solve the Raptor issue.

Musk later noted bankruptcy was unlikely, and survivable if it happened.


10 posted on 12/02/2021 1:00:06 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: srmanuel

It was awesome!


11 posted on 12/02/2021 3:48:51 PM PST by caww ( )
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