Posted on 08/10/2024 4:39:07 PM PDT by george76
SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites into orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday morning in clear skies from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, one day after the mission was scrubbed because of poor booster recovery conditions.
The 230-foot rocket lifted off at 8:50 a.m. from pad 40. It was Space X's 52nd launch this year from Florida.
Eight minutes later, the booster landed on Read the Instructions offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. That was the 21st time the booster landed on the drone ship and the 88th overall on the droneship.
About an hour after liftoff, the satellites went into a low Earth orbit.
Initially, SpaceX planned two launches from Florida on Saturday. But the 9:03 a.m. scheduled launch from Pad 39A with 23 satellites on Friday was rescheduled to 7:21 a.m. Sunday.
The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron listed the "go for launch" weather at 90% during the launch window Saturday.
Conditions were poor Friday because of the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby.
Of the satellites, 13 have direct-to-cell capabilities with access to texting, calling and browsing on land, lakes, coastal waters.
Falcon 9 launched the Crew-3 and Crew-4 astronaut missions to the International Space Station as well as two cargo missions
On Tuesday, NASA announced that the Crew-9 mission would be delayed from no earlier than Aug. 18 to no earlier than Sep. 24.
SpaceX Crew Dragon may launch only two people on board instead of four. Instead of flying on their troubled Boeing craft, they would be brought home on the Dragon.
The Boeing craft would return to Earth without astronauts.
Wilmore and Williams arrived at the ISS on June 6 on the first crewed test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule. They were supposed to be there for only 10 days.
SpaceX launched the NG-21 resupply mission for NASA on Sunday.
On Sunday, the private company also plans to launch satellites aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:02 p.m. PDT. The rocket will launch the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, consisting of two satellites owned by Space Norway.
Good news about a return soon.
One smart guy showing up a bunch of government bureaucrats.
I’m surprised that the two astronauts stuck up in space has not gotten more media attention.
Meanwhile Boeing is paying D.C. lobbyists to sell their worthless crap.
Amazing what can be accomplished with the government out of the way.
Getting mighty crowded up there. How to determine where all these satellites go?
They use super computers and algorithms and really hard math.
Or
They just let ‘em fly.
Despite there being close to 10,000 satellites up in orbit around the Earth, it is not even close to being crowded. You would probably need around a half billion satellites (500,000,000) before it starts to become a bit of a concern. Even when we get that many up there, they will likely keep them in “belts” (sort of like interstate highways) that criss cross the atmosphere at certain altitudes.
You da man, Elon!
Current gov doesn’t know it’s ass from it’s elbow. Maybe because it’s head is stuck up there where the sun don’t shine.
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“The Boeing craft would return to Earth without astronauts.”
For sure—but in how many pieces.
Lol.
What is that going to do to NASA if they return the capsule to earth and it burns up coming down?
Granted, less than it would if there were astronauts on it. It is asinine. I have no respect for NASA anymore, with their Muslim outreach and focus on climate change.
I am not a big fan of filling the sky with a blanket of Government Observation satellites watching our every move ( private venture my a$$ )
but they have nothing to fear, If Earths atmosphere dissapears into space because of balnketing the sky with garbage , they will just blame Man Caused Climate change
The interesting thing about Starlink is that it is doing what many in the Military said shouldn’t be done, but Musk is proving their silly fears wrong.
“SpaceX launched 21 StarNET satellites into orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket.”
“The interesting thing about Starlink is that it is doing what many in the Military said shouldn’t be done.”
It is a joint Musk/Military operation. We have no clue which payloads are military and which are civilian because he is putting up both even though they are all labelled “Starlink”.
I am almost ready to the pull the trigger for Starlink. But at the moment it takes more draw then I like on my solar bank and my cell phone tethered internet is quite fast/ and 1/3 the cost. In all the time I’ve been on the road and not had cell based internet I didn’t really want it.
“The rocket will launch the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, consisting of two satellites owned by Space Norway.”
....SpaceX is knee deep in military launches. Remember Norway ¤ NATP and this birds service all areas 65N and up look at a globe which country is that targeted at hint it’s not Norway.
https://spacenorway.no/en/heosat/
The satellites will have the following payloads:
X-band for the Norwegian Armed Forces
Ka-band for Viasat
A payload for the US military.
One of the satellites will include a radiation monitoring instrument built by the Norwegian company IDEAS and ESA. This will gather information about the radiation environment in the satellite orbits and contribute important information for the planning of radiation protection for the next generation of Galileo satellites (Europe’s navigation system).
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