Return to flight x3 ...... 2 launches from Florida and 1 from Vandenberg. "The cause of the leak was identified as a crack in a sense line for a pressure sensor attached to the vehicle’s oxygen system. This line cracked due to fatigue caused by high loading from engine vibration and looseness in the clamp that normally constrains the line." https://www.spacex.com/updates/#falcon-9-returns-to-flight .
Going out of business The Pentagon’s Top Rocket Launcher Is Behind Profit Goals and Losing Staff (msn.com)
Polaris Dawn mission - 4 'private citizen' astronauts ..... 2 will go on a 'spacewalk' (sort of) ..... BUT, there is NO airlock, so all 4 will be in a vacuum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn . WATCH ....... Scheduled for Aug. 26 at 3:38 a.m. Eastern [7:38 UTC], from Kennedy Space Center https://www.youtube.com/live/gWOYQ5Dto7c?si=pyElQtiTCthEYTIy .
. SRUBBED (nothing serious) ....... try again, same time Wed. morning Image Unavailable, Please Login
Falcon booster topples over on 23rd drone ship landing attempt after successful Starlink mission. did 1 of 4 legs fail to deploy? .
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SpaceX Drains Air From Spacecraft While Astronauts Are Inside (msn.com) What a ****ing idiot reporter, calling the spacewalk a stunt. Not just once but multiple times in the article.
Watched the entire space walk this morning with excellent commentary by the Space X team…..explaining the process. This reporter is an idiot. Again…..anything Musk or Trump related is going to get this treatment on MSDNC. NASA and the FAA should be ashamed to say anything anymore. They are just risk free government hacks with tenured paychecks.
Falcon Heavy Launch - Monday, Oct. 14 at 12:05 p.m. ET Europa Clipper Mission https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=europa-clipper .
Successful deployment of spacecraft ..... all 3 boosters were expended. Maximum performance necessary meant no extra fuel left for return. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Had no idea that SpaceX also recovers fairings for reuse. Boeing (including McDonnell) and Lockheed spent over 5 decades fleecing the US taxpayer and inhibiting space exploration.
Falcon Heavy/ Europa Clipper ...... note the 2 used/burned side boosters and the clean, new center booster . Image Unavailable, Please Login .
John Kraus X; "SpaceX’s last ~40 hours: - launch of history’s largest and most powerful rocket, Starship, completing the first-ever midair catch of a rocket booster and an on-target ocean landing of the upper stage - launch of Falcon Heavy with an interplanetary NASA spacecraft headed to one of Jupiter’s moons, achieving a new Falcon vehicle velocity record - two Falcon 9 launches of dozens of Starlink satellites; one from Florida, one from California That’s four launches of three different rockets (Starship/FH/F9) from four unique launch sites in three U.S. states — in ~40 hours. Insanity."
" note the 2 used/burned side boosters " ***** Used previously 6 (?) times...boosters .expended on this flight because all fuel needed for launch.
yes, listed as"Booster#-6" Image Unavailable, Please Login click on 'UPCOMING' or 'PREVIOUS' LAUNCHES ..... for ALL (American, French, Chinese, Russian, etc.) the mission/rocket/launch info https://everydayastronaut.com/falcon-heavy-europa-clipper/ .
ho hum, another day at the office. Falcon 9 launch this morning 'the first-stage booster of the Falcon 9 will land on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. This landing would mark the 87th recovery for ASOG and the 375th booster landing overall'