LIVE! SpaceX Starlink 5-15 Launch

1 posted on 07/15/2023 9:01:08 PM PDT by Morgana

The launch is impressive but the recovery of the first stage booster is incredible!

2 posted on 07/15/2023 9:15:54 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)

I saw one and it was very impressive

3 posted on 07/15/2023 9:18:00 PM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)

I thought it had been scrubbed until I felt the unmistakeable rumbling a bit ago……..it seemed to go on a long time, so much so I went outside to check.

4 posted on 07/15/2023 9:36:11 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)

SpaceX has revolutionized aerospace in so many ways. They do not just reuse rocket stages. The top of the rocket has fairings that protects the payload(s) through the atmosphere during the rocket's launch and flight. Just after the first stage disconnects, the fairings are released (2 sides). Space is also recovering and reusing the fairings. In the last 2 launches, the two first stages had been recovered and reused 16 TIMES, EACH!

The text below is from an amazing website behindtheblack.com.

"The Falcon 9 rocket used a first stage flying on its sixteenth flight, landing successfully on a drone ship in the Atlantic. That is the second 1st stage in SpaceX’s fleet to complete that many flights. Both first stages completed their sixteen flights in only three years, which means that those two first stages have actually flown more times than the entire United States rocket industry did annually from 2000 to 2019. I don’t have a full count, but I suspect both stages have launched in those three years more satellites then the totals for almost all other nations"

5 posted on 07/15/2023 9:57:30 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)

To: Ronaldus Magnus III

There are a lot of private rocket companies doing business today. It’s an exciting time for aerospace.

6 posted on 07/15/2023 11:00:30 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)

To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Why was it ever accepted by NASA that we would throw away 90-95% of the entire rocket every launch? Man they had a sweet deal until Elon came along.

7 posted on 07/16/2023 12:53:33 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)

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