Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

SpaceX launches back-to-back Starlink flights after FAA lifts ban on Falcon fleet
UPI ^ | Aug. 31, 2024 | Don Jacobson

Posted on 08/31/2024 5:30:17 PM PDT by george76

SpaceX carried out back-to-back launches of Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites into orbit early Saturday, just hours after U.S. officials lifted a temporary ban on the rocket fleet.

The company first launched the Starlink 8-10 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:43 a.m. EDT, and quickly followed that just an hour later with another Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Together, the flights delivered 42 Starlink satellites, including 26 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit,


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: capecanaveral; elon; elonmusk; falcon9; launches; musk; satellites; space; spacex; starlink; starlinksatellite; starlinksatellites; vandenberg
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-29 next last

1 posted on 08/31/2024 5:30:17 PM PDT by george76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: george76

Probably didn’t want to give them a chance to shut it down again.


2 posted on 08/31/2024 5:32:54 PM PDT by glorgau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: george76

Musk should turn off starlink to Brazil.


3 posted on 08/31/2024 5:34:02 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe

He’s giving it to Brazil free so they can’t collect money off it. And its an uninhibited network for Brazilians.


4 posted on 08/31/2024 5:38:03 PM PDT by Bayard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: george76

Starlink needs to drop a Rod From God on that Brazilian fascist.


5 posted on 08/31/2024 5:40:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe

No, he said he would continue to service the customers even though they have no system to handle payment for services because Brazil shut their bank account in Brazil.


6 posted on 08/31/2024 5:51:36 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

7 posted on 08/31/2024 6:05:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: george76

I wonder why NASA had a temporary ban on SpaceX satellite launches. I hope it’s not just so they could stop making Boeing look so bad.


8 posted on 08/31/2024 6:12:20 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: george76

“26 with Direct to Cell capabilities.”

Skynet... Told you it was coming and Musk would be the one to do it. He is working with government/military intelligence to track every thing we do by satellite.


9 posted on 08/31/2024 6:22:07 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Openurmind

You don’t need sats to track everything you do.


10 posted on 08/31/2024 6:42:04 PM PDT by BereanBrain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BereanBrain

“You don’t need sats to track everything you do.”

Terrestrial methods are not as accurate. Starlink pinpoints location to one foot. And... can collect every bit of what you are doing on your phone in real time. And not all phone carriers are capitulating with the government data collection. This will collect it all without permission or need for terrestrial carriers cooperation. All from one infrastructure rather than thousands of private infrastructures.


11 posted on 08/31/2024 6:50:55 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: BereanBrain

The whole globe under one net.


12 posted on 08/31/2024 6:58:30 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: george76

I’m thinking about getting Starlink for my internet. It’s slower (100Mbs) but as long as I have a generator I have internet and phone.


13 posted on 08/31/2024 7:40:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Kamala Harris loves to give wet Willys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VeniVidiVici

“I’m thinking about getting Starlink for my internet. It’s slower (100Mbs) but as long as I have a generator I have internet and phone.”

I live on Hawaii Big Island and I pay for Starlink as it is thus far the most far cheapest and reliable internet, Phone communications, plus it is my TV.
but it is not cheap!

Local resources simply aren’t that reliable or available eg no Local TV.

For you that don’t know it, Hawaii is one the most remote places on earth with respect to major continents.
We are out in the middle of nowhere.
Aloha


14 posted on 08/31/2024 8:54:26 PM PDT by rellic (rough)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Freee-dame

Nah, SpaceX had a booster land then catch fire and fall over which leads to a bad day for said booster or what’s left of it. They temporally halted flights to figure out what went wrong after 300+ successful landings in a row. They must have found the flaw and write code for it so they are flying again. As for making Boeing look bad , the DEI corps do that on their own. Sucks for the two astronauts booted off the Crew 9 misson for Boeing’s F up.


15 posted on 08/31/2024 9:19:44 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Freee-dame
I wonder why NASA had a temporary ban on SpaceX satellite launches.

The FAA had a temporary hold on SpaceX launches because they crashed a booster a week or so ago.

16 posted on 08/31/2024 9:22:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: GenXPolymath

SpaceX just brought the crashed booster back, aboard ASOG ...

Or perhaps I should say they brought back half of it. The bottom half, which is fortunate. If any clues as to what happened survived the fire, that’s where they’ll be.


17 posted on 08/31/2024 9:25:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: NorthMountain

Looked like they had a leak of either TEA-TEB or the landing hydraulic fluid there was blue green flames not the typical color of Kero/LOX. The first fluid burns green for sure.


18 posted on 08/31/2024 9:33:22 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: GenXPolymath

I think that booster was the most used booster (28 flights or something) and it died of fatigue.


19 posted on 08/31/2024 11:52:11 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Theophilus

23 flights. And, yes, the record for booster re-flights.


20 posted on 09/01/2024 1:08:29 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-29 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson