#Falcon Heavy | ViaSat 3 Americas & Others

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rose moth
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PETER ITS GO

elder zenith
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here we go

rose moth
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SCRUB IT NOW

deep island
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T-30 seconds

keen finch
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bru

elder zenith
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15

kind pawn
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15

rose moth
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oooo

deep island
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10

steel wagon
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Further

deep island
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5

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43

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2

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1

quaint jewel
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its going!

deep island
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Liftoff!

elder zenith
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liftoff!

kind pawn
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Liftoff

steel wagon
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It

rose moth
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oooo

steel wagon
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Fast

iron marlin
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damm my stream is off 😭

elder zenith
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IT FAST

keen finch
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it go

keen finch
quaint jewel
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it so fast

steel wagon
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2x

gleaming sierra
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Go Falcon Heavy!

elder zenith
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nice views

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was it just me or did it absolutely leap off the pad

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felt like SLS

kind pawn
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Max-Q

elder zenith
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max w

gleaming sierra
elder zenith
gleaming sierra
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That thing is pitching over quick

elder zenith
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yea

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red falcon

rose moth
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cool views

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holy shit

keen finch
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that thing is going

kind pawn
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wow

gleaming sierra
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shallow trajectory to get the velocity to go direct to GTO

keen finch
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places

elder zenith
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woooah

iron marlin
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what was meco vel for ussf 67

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for core

elder zenith
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lower

iron marlin
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what tho

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aprox

elder zenith
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i don't Rember

steel wagon
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The effect

gleaming sierra
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nice shot!

steel wagon
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Plume lit up

gleaming sierra
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BECO

rose moth
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boosters have completed their mission and now are gonna die

kind pawn
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BECO

gleaming sierra
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Rip B1052 and B1053

elder zenith
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beco at 10120 ish

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o7 boosters

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damn that view

gleaming sierra
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o7

deep island
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theyre using RCS~

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!!!

steel wagon
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Very cool ciew

elder zenith
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big jellyfish

quaint jewel
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they lied to us about being expended

rose moth
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this is sad

gleaming sierra
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prob still need the RCS to get away from the core

elder zenith
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WOAH

rose moth
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cool view

kind pawn
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DAMN

rose moth
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woaaah

gleaming sierra
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this has some GREAT SHOTS

rose moth
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insane

kind pawn
elder zenith
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inferno

rose moth
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meco

elder zenith
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meco

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17068

quaint jewel
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crazy

deep island
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MECO at 17000km/h

elder zenith
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ses

gleaming sierra
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rip B1068

steel wagon
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Earth view is cool

deep island
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o7 B1068

elder zenith
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fast core stage

gleaming sierra
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is this going into a parking orbit first or is it going direct to GTO?

iron marlin
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thats 4.7 km/s

elder zenith
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fairing sep

austere cargo
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17000km/h holy fuck

ivory gust
elder zenith
gleaming sierra
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I would assume direct to GTO based on the speed

rose moth
raven marsh
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Holy shite.

elder zenith
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that's sick

steel wagon
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Phone?

gleaming sierra
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!!!

austere cargo
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don’t think they’re gonna land this center core yall

quaint jewel
iron marlin
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thats over 60% orbital velo

rose moth
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@ivory gust best launch youve seen?

elder zenith
ivory gust
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Arcturus photo bomb too.

deep island
keen finch
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boosters going for a drink

raven marsh
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The velocity at separation.... Bruh

iron marlin
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isnt f9 expendable like 2700m.s

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so fully expendable is 2km/s fatser

austere cargo
elder zenith
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Wen core to near orbit, SLS style

austere cargo
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not nearly as fast

gleaming sierra
iron marlin
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delta 4 heavy is like 6.5 jn.s

elder zenith
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SLS is close to 7.5 i think

rose moth
iron marlin
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i think its less than 3km/s

gleaming sierra
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stage 2 fts

elder zenith
steel wagon
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How do they measure the speed

iron marlin
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btw also love how short first burn is

austere cargo
iron marlin
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its liek 2 mins lol

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isnt it normally like 6

austere cargo
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wait did the fairings stay on until S2 sep

iron marlin
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yes

keen finch
deep island
elder zenith
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seacoah 1

deep island
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they separated at 130km

keen finch
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those fairings are going places

austere cargo
elder zenith
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nominal parking orbit

gleaming sierra
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nominal NOI

steel wagon
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Stage 1 at Florida apparently

elder zenith
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woohoo

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stage zero TrollPolite

gleaming sierra
austere cargo
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what kind of TPS do they have on these fairings kekw

iron marlin
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i just checked

gleaming sierra
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this mission is crazy, even if the boosters were expended

elder zenith
iron marlin
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and ussf was 4028m/s

elder zenith
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nsf had very cool views as well

iron marlin
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so fully expendable is about 700m/s

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faster

gleaming sierra
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to compare real quick, USSF-67 had BECO velocity at 5670 while ViaSat-3 had BECO velocity at 10,000

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nearly 2x

austere cargo
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this thing had seen enough tornadoes

elder zenith
austere cargo
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it got out of there

elder zenith
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that fast

keen finch
iron marlin
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arabsat 6A was ab 3km/s

austere cargo
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o7 1052 😭😭

elder zenith
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so next FH USSF-52 at some point this year!

iron marlin
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so 1700m/s diference from fully reusable f heavy

elder zenith
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or Jupiter-3

gleaming sierra
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MECO for both missions was about the same at 16,500

iron marlin
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to fully expendable

elder zenith
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core burns the same cuz expended

iron marlin
elder zenith
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boosters for longer cuz also expended

iron marlin
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that is 67

gleaming sierra
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ah nvm, sorry I was glancing quick

elder zenith
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viasat was about 17000

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17120 I think

iron marlin
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yea ab 1700m/s faster than arabsat and about 700m/s faster than ussf 67

crude bridge
elder zenith
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this is the fastest a f9 booster has gone

iron marlin
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wow arabsat was only 300m/s faster than expendable f9

elder zenith
kind pawn
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🫡

glossy girder
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So did anyone at Florida catch the entry burns?

iron marlin
glossy girder
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Not a joke lol

austere cargo
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already 100 holy crap

crude bridge
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Repost
Next all-expendable FH on manifest is Europa Clipper

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raven marsh
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When's that?

elder zenith
raven marsh
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This year, or next year? I can't remember?

elder zenith
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2024

gleaming sierra
elder zenith
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october

raven marsh
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Ahh. Thanks

glossy girder
elder zenith
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i guesskekw

eternal dune
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back from baking some stuff did it go or scrub

elder zenith
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it went

gleaming sierra
eternal dune
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awesome

elder zenith
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launch over time to sleep

gleaming sierra
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spaceflight now got a great shot

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you can watch it pitch radial-in to gain velocity

eternal dune
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Wow it was going insanely fast

kind pawn
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SES-2 soon

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SES-2

iron marlin
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how long is a normal gto burn

elder zenith
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here for the seco 2

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then I'm going off

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bright engin

elder zenith
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merlin is powerful

iron marlin
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so why is this 2 mins

elder zenith
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oh is it 2

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fair

iron marlin
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is it bec doing inclination

gleaming sierra
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LOS Gabon

iron marlin
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change

elder zenith
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if this was RL10 the burn would be something like 10 mins kekw

deep island
elder zenith
deep island
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I doubt it

glossy girder
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This one it is 2 minutes because it's heavier

deep island
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its more efficient to do inclination changes at apogee

gleaming sierra
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burn seems to have gone well

elder zenith
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actually true yeah

iron marlin
elder zenith
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seco when

gleaming sierra
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AOS Malindy?

glossy girder
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Its orbital insertion burn was less than 4 minutes long so it's more loaded with propellants cause it was not 6 minutes

iron marlin
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ohhhh

elder zenith
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makes sense

iron marlin
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makes sense

gleaming sierra
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SECO occurred in coms blackout

elder zenith
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alright

iron marlin
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what is our guess

elder zenith
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good stuff

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I'm off now

iron marlin
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how much mass was put into the parking orbit

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40+ tons

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?

crude bridge
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SES-3 will be at 04:48 UTC

deep island
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given it was an expandable FH

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~60,000kg

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plus 2nd stage dry mass

iron marlin
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i am a student of aerospace engineering

eternal dune
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It cleared the pad a lot faster this time or is it just me?

iron marlin
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maybe when i take orbital dynamics next sem i could give better num

empty sun
glossy girder
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I would guess this was closer to 55 tonnes to LEO

eternal dune
austere cargo
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when does it do the inclination change

crude bridge
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Hohmann transfer orbit means that you always change your inclination at apogee to save delta-v

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That's also why for GTO missions you wanna make the 2nd burn (LEO->GTO) across the equator - you want to put the apogee over the equator so that you can change your inclination to 0 (eventually)

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BTW this will be the longest launch mission ever covered by SpaceX in full apparently
(disregarding Crew Dragon in-orbit coverages)
Previous record was Falcon Heavy/STP-2 with last payload sep. at T+3h 35m
(unless you count the FH Demo/Starman views, which was not continuous and skipped the later 2 stage-2 burns I think)

foggy crow
glossy girder
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Well, we tried catching them with the KSC cams but they weren't pointed in the right direction

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(not my fault, I can't move those)

austere cargo
foggy crow
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So what's even the point? Trying to remain in contact through the hellish plasma as far down as possible or?

crude bridge
# austere cargo gotcha okay so they don’t burn direct into GEO

If your launch site is close enough to the equator, you can combine the first two burns.
This is exactly what's planned for Ariane 6 (Ariane 1-4 and most Ariane 5 versions can't do direct-to-GEO because the upper stage can't be restarted - only the Ariane 5 ES version could, and it was never used for GTO/GEO bound missions).

austere cargo
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gotcha

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makes sense

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so that’s what i’m doing wrong in kerbal

mossy rose
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did it we are going today

night prawn
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what does the LC-39A schedule look like now that this one has launched?

glossy girder
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Well

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Let's say there might be some private human spaceflight company not very happy

foggy crow
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.....oof

mossy rose
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what did I miss?

foggy crow
mossy rose
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huh

foggy crow
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Became lighter

crude bridge
mossy rose
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oh that one

crude bridge
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Cargo Dragon CRS-28 will need to launch in early June

foggy crow
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They can't launch Ax-2 in late May as previously planned and leave the T/E in Dragon config to do back to back ISS missions? What's the holdup

crude bridge
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Then there are many FH missions lining up behind as well (USSF-52, EchoStar 24/Jupiter-3, Psyche etc.) that WILL have to use 39A

crude bridge
night prawn
glossy girder
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I really haven't heard a confirmation of Ax-2's delay but I did hear 10 days ago that if Viasat-3 delayed by another week, Axiom-2 would jump to the slot for Axiom-3 in September

foggy crow
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....... husk

crude bridge
glossy girder
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So I'm guessing that's what's going to happen

night prawn
foggy crow
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I'm wondering whether they'll contract another F9 or just introduce Antares 330 one mission earlier

crude bridge
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Only Eric Berger seems to have reported on that as rumor

night prawn
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so if Ax-2 is in September, does SpX-28 get moved up to fill the slot?

glossy girder
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Idk

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I had an update on LC-39A's schedule like two weeks ago but it's already f-ed up

foggy crow
# crude bridge Did we ever heard why

No, still isn't anything past a Berger rumor so far as I know, but considering Yuzhmash and Energomash aren't really super willing to help at the moment and spare parts don't exist... Kinda expected this

fiery blade
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So how did it go?

night prawn
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so far so good

fiery blade
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Nice

crude bridge
kind niche
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it do be going up

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past 20000km

ivory gust
mossy rose
rose moth
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aight time for some pics

kind niche
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payload cams for a second

rose moth
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im done

iron marlin
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what time est will geo burn be?

deep island
deep island
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I will ping dw

iron marlin
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they said t+4:20

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so 22 mins from now

deep island
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SES-3 is at T+4:22:19

iron marlin
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so 12:47 ish

deep island
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12:49ish yeah

iron marlin
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in 22 mins

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lol

deep island
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yea

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oh shit

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was that the moon?

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I think the moon was just in frame for a second

iron marlin
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that?

deep island
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yea

iron marlin
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i would think that may bee too small

deep island
iron marlin
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could be a planet

deep island
deep island
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so its possible it would appear smaller

empty sun
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clearly its a UFO guys smh

deep island
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true

iron marlin
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do we know is spacex alt is from sl or center of earth

empty sun
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any light you see on a spacex webcast should always be interpeted as tech from ancient aliens

empty sun
iron marlin
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so that is like apogee of less than 2000km below geo belt

deep island
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Im convinced that's the moon

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it looks like it has a shadow

glossy girder
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I've checked multiple streak shots from several photographers and none caught the entry burn of the boosters

deep island
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yooo

iron marlin
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are you saying it was doing it

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or just in case they did it

deep island
glossy girder
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That was the reason why the had RCS thrusters

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They didn't burn to depletion on this flight on the side boosters

deep island
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oh wait

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you did say entry burn

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post the pics

iron marlin
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bec normally dont safe boosters right after sep

glossy girder
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Which is why I said there's more performance left on this rocket but they didn't use it

iron marlin
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didnt they do that

glossy girder
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Wdym?

deep island
night prawn
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FTS was safed right after sep

deep island
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since this one has no chance of decaying

night prawn
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yeah, stage 2 is staying up near GEO

glossy girder
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Well they had some leftover performance which is why they were able to reserve propellant for the test

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I do think they could have done double ASDS on this one but they just decided not to cause they're really old boosters

iron marlin
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right after beco we hear both side boosters are safed

glossy girder
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The AFTS

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Which has nothing to do with how the engines run or not

iron marlin
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ik but when they do landing they dont safe until end of landing burn

glossy girder
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Otherwise no Falcon 9 booster would ever do an entry burn

glossy girder
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AFTS gets safed before entry burn

night prawn
glossy girder
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For every F9 landing

iron marlin
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i also dont think faa would ever let engines fire wo fts

mossy rose
deep island
glossy girder
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And listen to the call outs

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AFTS is safed always before the entry burn of every Falcon 9 booster

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And for second stage it is always safed like 10-20 seconds before it reaches orbit

iron marlin
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but still its never safed right after sep

glossy girder
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Yeah but in this case it doesn't matter cause it doesn't affect how the engines work

iron marlin
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are you theorizing that the entry burn happened

glossy girder
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It's an independent system and the only reason it was deactivated is because the side boosters are gonna go in the drink anyways

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No I'm not theorizing

iron marlin
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or do you know this for sure

glossy girder
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Yes, I know they were going to do that on this flight

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And that it is why the side boosters were equipped with RCS thrusters and fired them after separating from the center core

deep island
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I doubt it since they would have been noticed

glossy girder
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No, they have ways to hide the call outs

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They've done that before

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Entry should have been at around T+6:30

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More or less

deep island
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I wonder if the boosters made it to the sea or if they broke up since they didnt have gridfins

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oh shit

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I wonder if this burn will be visable from NA

glossy girder
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I suspect they probably lost control

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The test could also have failed for all I know, I have no idea how it went

deep island
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Unless it was some new 9 engine entry burn 😆

glossy girder
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Nah hahaha

deep island
iron marlin
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so then what would meco be on fully expendable

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ig we will find out w clipper

deep island
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Isn't Psyche fully expendable now?

night prawn
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no

glossy girder
deep island
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Idk, I thought it changed because it was going at a new window, idk

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idk idk idk

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anyway im gonna hop outside and see if I can catch the insertion burn

glossy girder
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It's not like Psyche is a 10 tonne spacecraft hahahaha

iron marlin
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EC will prob be max

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max

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i would guess

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is EC gonna use every oz of preformance

empty sun
deep island
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So it might be visible from NA

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But I'm not sure

iron marlin
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the velo is going down lol

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is that inclination decrease

deep island
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Yeah didn't see it

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RIP

night prawn
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so speed goes down

iron marlin
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like how they overshot zero by few km/hr

deep island
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as long as its close enough

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the payloads have the thrusters to maneuver

iron marlin
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or just wierd telemetry

deep island
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well considering its a Falcon S2, I highly doubt it was 100% accurate lol

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OOO EARTH

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pog

iron marlin
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looks like roughly 1000km below geo

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no idea what the inclination is

deep island
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inclination should be 0

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we'll get the reports from Johnathan eventually

iron marlin
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this is not a direct geo officialy

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its close to geo

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hence not at 35700km

icy obsidian
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Is the Earth blue

iron marlin
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yooo

deep island
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the earth is all white

iron marlin
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is that oversat earth

deep island
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yea lol

iron marlin
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you can see rcs fireing

deep island
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theyre tumbling?

iron marlin
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sse the puff

craggy matrix
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Didn't realize how big it is

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deep island
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or are they spinning

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yeah they are definitely tumbling

glossy girder
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It was targeting a 34620km orbit

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And look at the altitude

deep island
glossy girder
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It's not directly at GEO, it's slightly below it

iron marlin
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what is target inclination

glossy girder
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Which was the target orbit

iron marlin
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is it zero

glossy girder
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Tmk, 0º

empty sun
iron marlin
glossy girder
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And probably satellite drift

iron marlin
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we will know soon enough from jonathan

glossy girder
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Probably a "Tory Bruno happy" moment cause of the accuracy

iron marlin
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i am curious if its like 1 or 2 deg

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as ses was similar orbit

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ses 20 and 21

glossy girder
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Spaceflight Now says 0 degrees

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iron marlin
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also 1km

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off

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not bang on

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lol

deep island
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well it might be 501 meters

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idk what spacex's rounding point is

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they could be at 34620.499km lol

iron marlin
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look at earrth!

deep island
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oh yeah this is on the opposite side of the earth from the USA lol

glossy girder
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Deployment from the Falcon 9 second stage lmao

deep island
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kek

iron marlin
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but i dont think that would raise both

deep island
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I mean from B-Sep its no different to any other F9 mission

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just going faster

iron marlin
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SUCSESSFUL MISSION!

deep island
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Let's gooo

heavy umbra
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T+739:37:01 Forum Closed

night prawn
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The Forums Closer

glossy girder
heavy umbra
mossy rose
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yes elon

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that is falcon heavy

empty sun
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nah its clearly B126

elder zenith
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geostationary is 0 inclination, so directly above the equator, geosynchronous is not directly above equator

empty sun
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Geosynchronous is any orbit with 24 hr period

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Could be elliptical or inclined

elder zenith
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yeah

foggy crow
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That being said if any mission is FH3R it'll probably be Nancy Grace, it's significantly lighter than JWST which launched on A5 sooo

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4166kg launch mass vs 6161 for JWST

keen finch
median cosmos
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Oh it did it's thing

elder zenith
foggy crow
elder zenith
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yeah makes sense

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Jupiter-3 will probably be all expended

foggy crow
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Probably ASDS

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Depends if they want to do GTO or push things are hard as they can, I dunno if even full expend can get it directly to GEO

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If someone wants to math that out feel free, silverbird is useless for this

deep island
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Idk, this launch was ~7t and they only did the entry burn on the side cores

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EchoStar 24 is 9 tonnes

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So I would bet it'll be another triple kill

elder zenith
storm summit
iron marlin
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70km off in perigee

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1 km apogee

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.1 deg of in inclination

foggy crow
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Pretty solid

iron marlin
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does someone have good delta v estimation

glossy girder
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about 45m/s off from perfect GEO

iron marlin
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what would target orbit be

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from geo

glossy girder
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Wdym?

iron marlin
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had it been 34620x34620x0

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to geo

glossy girder
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43.5m/s off

iron marlin
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ohhh

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so thats nothing for these guys

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i bet the target was prob +- 1000km

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for apogee

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something around that

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what would you guess margins are

deep island
iron marlin
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ik i got that

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i was asking what would delta v from that to geo

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but already answered

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btw for all of us that were curious there is a spredheet comparing falcon 9 and heavy gto prefomance

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also includes meco velocity

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so falcon heavys boosters were going faster than a expendable falcon 9

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they were going about 2800m/s

iron marlin
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do we know if ussf-52 is still doing gto?

foggy crow
iron marlin
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was it confirmed

foggy crow
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Well, almost to direct

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Just shy

foggy crow
iron marlin
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ik that is what we speculated based on price going up

foggy crow
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Price going up was due to addon services

iron marlin
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wasnt it originaly speced for 6350kg to gto

foggy crow
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Wasn't 52 the one that added on the VIF

iron marlin
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no was 67

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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

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I HAVEN'T WATCHED THE LAUNCH BUT WHAT THE FUCK

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10 000KM/H AT 80KM WHEN BOOSTER SEPARATION OCCURED

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LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

iron marlin
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17000km/hr at centecore shutdown

icy obsidian
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DAMNNN

iron marlin
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60% of orbital velo

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ab 2km/s faster than falcon 9 expendable

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1700m/s faster than abrabsat

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700m/s faster than ussf67

glossy girder
glossy girder
foggy crow
glossy girder
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And it'll remain like that for a while I believe

foggy crow
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Molnyia or something goofy like that?

glossy girder
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This one I really can't say

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Lol

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Only thing I did related to it was moving it to July and remove GTO as its orbital destination

night prawn
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he knows too much lol

foggy crow
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Alex shalt not turn NXF into Thug Shaker Central

glossy girder
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Launch is about two months away so hopefully they talk about it publicly soon but we'll see

deep island
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I mean we'll know once the TFRs are posted.. kinda

night prawn
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it is better than nothing but it only tells us what direction the vehicle is going, not the final destination

glossy girder
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FCC permit will tell us the landing type

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I think it'll be RTLS

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Some others think ASDS

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We'll see

iron marlin
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where is this disucssion lol

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L2?

glossy girder
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No

iron marlin
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i was looking on nsf fourm

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and they say it may have done supersynch insertion to be faster

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is there any credance to that

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also isnt a geo coast normally 6hrs

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why was this only 4

white ingot
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btw
Will boosters info (e.g. flight # and turnaround time) appear on ViaSat-3 mission card?

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I'm holding my urge to ping Managers TrollPolite
@crude bridge or whoever is online rn KEK

trim oxide
crude bridge
white ingot
mossy rose
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michel

trim oxide
white ingot
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oh wait

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NOOOO

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I misread/misinterpreted

trim oxide
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Ability to read : denied

white ingot
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literally

crude bridge
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Yeah I expected these to be the same for FH boosters (or even cores, if there's a chance in the future) recycled and expended at the end, but it didn't for 1052/3.
(It's fine for 1068)

white ingot
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I was thinking he said it will look weird KEK but the meaning was it's just bugged Paimon_DeadInside

narrow schooner
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One of the biggest space scams were the USSF-44 & 67 double droneship landings

mossy rose
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when was that supposed to be

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did any of the dual droneship falcon heavies launch yet

gleaming sierra
crude bridge
elder zenith
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yeah it isn't clear as of now

heavy umbra
narrow schooner
elder zenith
heavy umbra
foggy crow
elder zenith
kind niche
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https://vxtwitter.com/spacex/status/1653509582046769156

vxTwitter
Fairing reentry on the ViaSat-3 mission was the hottest and fastest we've ever attempted. The fairings re-entered the atmosphere greater than 15x the speed of sound, creating a large trail of plasma in its wake
SpaceX (@SpaceX)

Fairing reentry on the ViaSat-3 mission was the hottest and fastest we've ever attempted. The fairings re-entered the atmosphere greater than 15x the speed of sound, creating a large trail of plasma in its wake

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deep island
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hoooooooooooly shit

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you can even see the other fairing

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this is cool

foggy crow
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Holy hell that's badass

elder zenith
elder zenith
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was the recovery successful?

quaint jewel
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I wanna ride on it

kind niche
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it’s just a gopro

austere cargo
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these things are gonna be s c o r c h e d

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very impresssed

glossy girder
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They reentered at almost 5km/s

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Another reason ULA should reuse Vulcan fairings

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If Blue is going for it, ULA should do it too

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C'mon Tory

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Scoop those suckers out of the ocean

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Gonna be useful for Kuiper launches

austere cargo
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does it make financial sense for them

glossy girder
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Well, it would definitely help launch cadence

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They're going full steam ahead with SMART now precisely because they have all those dozens of launches for Kuiper

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If it weren't for those launches they probably would still working on it slowly

rose moth
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is this the first time we see footage from a fairing in reentry?

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at least its the first time i do

foggy crow
austere cargo
austere cargo
foggy crow
austere cargo
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overall i don’t think RUAG/Beyond Gravity would be exactly thrilled

foggy crow
austere cargo
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i know it was bad on cost

foggy crow
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They're already sending out a M A R I N E A S S E T for the thrust section anyway

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Not that much more difficult to pick up the fairings

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yeah if they didn’t have thrust section asset it wouldn’t really make sense

austere cargo
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hey baes do you wanna help us design a fairing that means we pay you less instead of buy more from you xoxo tory

heavy umbra
median cosmos
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deep island
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There was some plasma, but not as intense as these

rose moth
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ok

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Came across on my YouTube this morning. Pretty neat set up, great video.

https://youtu.be/nyIlKxcBzuw

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heavy umbra
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Yeah, pretty awesome set up.

deep island
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Fairings are home!

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And they got them both! Impressive

storm summit
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Toasty

deep island
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very

storm summit
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what is the number of flights of each fairing half?

heavy umbra
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Well, they are also the first Falcon Heavy fairings which are not new as they had flown before.

foggy crow
heavy umbra
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Idk

foggy crow
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Or just the first flight of FH with previously flown fairings

glossy girder
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First flight of FH with used fairing halves

heavy umbra
glossy girder
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They're not specific to FH

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I think one half was like 5th flight and the other 6th I think

foggy crow
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Oh damn okay not bad at all

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Is the reuse record 9 flights? Apparently 5-6 was at 9

glossy girder
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Yep

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That was the record

foggy crow
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Fairing reuse is honestly underrated

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Gonna be cool to see it hit double digits

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What's the average flight count for a Merlin these days? We barely hear anything about engine reuse