Posted on 01/13/2025 8:38:59 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
Blastoff is imminent.
Link to rocket launch
It’s not the big boy. Just a starlink.
click on the youtube
Successful Falcon 9 launches should hardly be surprising or embarrassing anymore.
I never get tired of the landings
Launch was successful. It was visable for seconds before it disappeared in the low cloud cover.
Never gets old.
1st stage landing successful.
Another boring Falcon 9 shot. Launch, land, repeat. Nothing ever goes kaboom! ;^)
Competition is good. Right now SpaceX is so far ahead it’s hard to see how Blue Origin is ever going to be real competition, but I’m rooting for Bezos and Blue Origin to get serious.
Thanks for the heads up, and that would be a YES!
And WOW! This was SpaceX’s SIXTH launch of 2025 already. They’re rocking it.
Musk needs competitors, otherwise a future dem administration will bring antitrust charges.
Me too. Kudos to Musk and SpaceX. But I want them to have healthy competition so they don’t lose their edge like Boeing did.
I just switch to Star Link and love it. No more buffeting.
It really is amazing that SpaceX went from 0 to having the best success rates in the world for satellite launches. Beating out advanced countries that have been doing it decades.
We are ‘just’ at the point of expecting reusable rockets that land themselves! ...along with high-speed internet from wireless satellites!
:)
I stayed up waiting for Blue Origin to launch, and they kept moving the launch time by adding more minutes. It was 2AM when I said “enough, I am going to bed.”
I’ve watched so many of these blast offs.
But the recovery and upright landing of the booster boggles my mind every time!
After all these years. When I was a kid watching Rocky Jones on Saturday morning I wondered why we never landed that way. Now it’s finally happening some 70 years later.
The real problem is Government cannot innovate. They get something working and stay with it like Russia and their automobiles. No vision.
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