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Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship mission on critical 9th test flight
YouTube ^ | 5/27/2025 | Spaceflight Now

Posted on 05/27/2025 3:52:56 PM PDT by RainMan

Launch in less than 1 hour


TOPICS: Astronomy; UFO's
KEYWORDS: flight9; spacex
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Cloudy here in Florida, so I will not see this one pass over.
1 posted on 05/27/2025 3:52:56 PM PDT by RainMan
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I’m watching on YouTube….


2 posted on 05/27/2025 4:11:53 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Sixteen minutes until liftoff.

This has the potential to be wild.

3 posted on 05/27/2025 4:14:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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got the spacex webcast up and the nasaspaceflight webcast up.

got my drink in my hand ready to go


4 posted on 05/27/2025 4:18:31 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Remember during the early 1970s when all three networks would pre-empt regular broadcasting to show all the NASA space launches.

Now they couldn't care less because the space launches are being done by Elon Musk and by extension, President Trump.

5 posted on 05/27/2025 4:21:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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I remember the 60”s the networks interrupted for the mer/gemini flights.


6 posted on 05/27/2025 4:25:34 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Countdown frozen at 40 seconds while they work out some “issues”


7 posted on 05/27/2025 4:30:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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ground side issue, they have a few minutes to work it


8 posted on 05/27/2025 4:35:16 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: RainMan

Clock rolling!


9 posted on 05/27/2025 4:36:33 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Counting down again!


10 posted on 05/27/2025 4:37:12 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Max Q


11 posted on 05/27/2025 4:39:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: RainMan

Amazing...


12 posted on 05/27/2025 4:51:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SamAdams76

Looks like a success.

The booster was not to be recovered this time, so don’t let the fake news say otherwise.


13 posted on 05/27/2025 4:51:29 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: RainMan

Elon does amazing stuff.


14 posted on 05/27/2025 4:51:49 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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“”got my drink in my hand ready to go””

Put it down before you get on board!!


15 posted on 05/27/2025 5:07:20 PM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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LOL not an adult beverage this time..


16 posted on 05/27/2025 5:12:38 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Arcadian Empire

made it past second stage engine cutoff, but has a venting issue, so uncontrolled re entry. happens in a development program


17 posted on 05/27/2025 5:18:43 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: SamAdams76

Plus just the volume of launches. Go to https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/ to see every launch coming up.


18 posted on 05/27/2025 5:31:16 PM PDT by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: SamAdams76

Well, at least they got Starship up. It seems like everything else went wrong, oh well.


19 posted on 05/27/2025 5:49:00 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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The Starship upper stage carried and deployed eight Starlink simulator satellites before targeting a splashdown in the Indian Ocean, further testing the spacecraft’s orbital and reentry capabilities. .. This ninth test flight comes after two consecutive failures earlier in 2025, making today’s mission a crucial step in SpaceX’s iterative approach to rocket development. - https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/spacex-launches-starship-on-9th-test-flight-with-plans-to-crash-super-heavy/ar-AA1FB7lZ


20 posted on 05/27/2025 6:19:05 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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