#Axiom Mission 3 (AX-3)

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sonic quail
calm marlin
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get real

limber cosmos
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real

lavish mango
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Is that a cover for the solar panels

mild sable
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I think so, I've seen it on other Dragons prior to launch

subtle dawn
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FREEDUMB

sonic quail
inner fable
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axe 3

limber cosmos
viral jolt
oblique otter
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Hype

tepid perch
oblique otter
limber cosmos
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god thanks it's not Jared to be the first repeat flier

teal herald
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💀💀💀

teal herald
solemn girder
waxen tartan
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I forgor Axiom was Axioming

silk otter
tepid perch
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I forgreg this is in 3 days

limber cosmos
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IS IT IN 3 DAYS?

solemn girder
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Ax-3 in 3

subtle dawn
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Ax-3 days

limber cosmos
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petition to replate T with Ax in countdown

subtle dawn
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What happens when we hit Ax-2 days troll

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does time just roll back to may 21 2023 or

limber cosmos
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Ax-0 trollfaceSkull

solemn girder
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EM-none TrollPolite

subtle dawn
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can we please be EM-done

inner fable
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no

hidden sedge
hidden sedge
oblique otter
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Wow, B1080 will be sending its second crew to the station and first repeat Dragon flier

hidden sedge
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4th booster to launch two crew missions

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After B1061, B1062, and B1067

remote bluff
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ngl this might be my favorite comcrew tradition

silk otter
calm marlin
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byeeeee

zenith sphinx
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> The plates have hidden meanings
> BYEEEEE

limber cosmos
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YEET

waxen tartan
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Gonna be AX-3 ISS

limber cosmos
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DRAGONE TrollPolite

viral jolt
subtle dawn
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freedumb time

hidden sedge
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A bit concerning that they didn't tell us what booster was flying in the description

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Fortunately we already know which booster is flying this one

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But hopefully they keep telling us the booster for other launches

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Cause otherwise we're kind of fucked

oblique otter
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That’s not a good sign

solemn girder
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Try to guess the booster by the soot marks with the 244p resolution from twitter troll

hidden sedge
subtle dawn
oblique otter
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I’ve never seen a booster with soot marks like that before, there’s more on the top part. Maybe it’s always been that way and I just never noticed

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solemn girder
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Probably from the MVac exhaust hitting on it during boostback burn

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It was already rather sooty on that side during the landing burn it did for Axiom-2. Sometimes that happens where the MVac just blasts the booster with its soot

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The FH side boosters also get a lot of soot from the exhaust of the center core for example

sonic quail
hidden sedge
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Hopefully, yeah

subtle dawn
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I love this rocket so much

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mf comes in at a 45 degree angle and doesn't care

subtle dawn
hidden sedge
subtle dawn
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just fired right back up for landing

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truly a chad rocket, more resilient than soyuz*
*nowadays, probably

oblique otter
oblique otter
oblique otter
limber cosmos
mild sable
viscid skiff
solemn girder
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Does anyone know if the post-FRR conference is anywhere available?

viscid skiff
# solemn girder Does anyone know if the post-FRR conference is anywhere available?

https://youtu.be/q833ayQy_4k

YouTube
Axiom Space
Ax-3 Mission | Crew Countdown to Launch

Axiom Space is building for beyond, guided by the vision of a thriving home in space that benefits every human, everywhere. The leading provider of human spaceflight services and developer of human-rated space infrastructure, Axiom Space operates end-to-end missions to the International Space Station today while developing its successo...

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solemn girder
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Isn't that the crew conference?

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Post-FRR conference was in December

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December 13th in fact, my birthday

viscid skiff
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This one?

solemn girder
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FFS I was looking on that channel but on the livestreams

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Ugh

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I hate that everything is all over the place

subtle dawn
calm marlin
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it’s all shits and giggles until cfour has a minor concern about it

subtle dawn
zenith sphinx
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there probably exists a timeline where astra leads the private spaceflight industry

subtle dawn
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lmao

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nah

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not a chance

pseudo fable
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I could believe that there's a timeline out there where NASA/DARPA kept all the hardware they put into Astra for itself and made Rocket 3 exist as a semi-successful government smallsat vehicle

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But Astra as a company? Nah

calm marlin
sonic quail
solemn girder
viral jolt
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Nooooooo

sonic quail
solemn girder
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Clock stopped at KSC

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And also reset

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Btw that clock was counting down to 5:11:03PM EST

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Not that it matters now but our entry had 5:11:25PM EST for some reason

sonic quail
oblique otter
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So is it a scrub for the day?

sonic quail
oblique otter
solemn girder
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TFR for today is gone, only the ones for 18th and 19th remain

oblique otter
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Dang I was so excited

solemn girder
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Yeah that happened today at 9AM EST, result is no go for today

solemn girder
oblique otter
viral jolt
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SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Thursday, January 18 for Falcon 9’s launch of Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 4:49 p.m. ET.

calm marlin
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damnittttt

zenith sphinx
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welp

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i aint watching that

limber cosmos
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top Dragon dockings/landings hyperjam

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Ax-2 was the fastest to dock so far

waxen tartan
sonic quail
viscid skiff
calm marlin
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whar

solemn girder
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KSC clock counting down to 21:49:12 UTC

viscid skiff
limber cosmos
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going sleep 2h before it launches knowing everything gonna go well TrollPolite
(and I'm just lazy to stay up)

viral jolt
silk otter
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is there anywhere to watch this stream that isn’t x

viscid skiff
tepid perch
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she ax on my iom

pseudo fable
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Shortline stop

tepid perch
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Alright

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Anyways crew launches are always exciting

silk otter
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what💀

pseudo fable
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Where strem

viral jolt
pseudo fable
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Thank

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Why is there Turkey spam in chat

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Is there a Turk on this one?

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I haven't been keeping up with ISS crews

tepid perch
viral jolt
pseudo fable
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Nice

sonic quail
# solemn girder KSC clock counting down to 21:49:12 UTC

For the record, William Harwood has it at :11.
https://fxtwitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1748069578557575447

FxTwitter / FixupX
🔁 4 ❤️ 10 👁️ 701
William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews)

F9/Ax-3: Now 2 hours to launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an international 4-man crew bound for the space station; liftoff from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center is targeted for 4:49:11pm EST (2149 UTC); weather is overcast, but currently "go"

sonic quail
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Mmmmmm LOX vapors

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mild sable
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BILL

oblique otter
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T-4 minutes

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T-2 minutes

subtle dawn
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jesus fucking christ y'all weren't kidding about the Turkey spam

oblique otter
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T-1 minute

subtle dawn
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LD go

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Time for doohickey to do thingy

oblique otter
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Liftoff

subtle dawn
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Freedom soars

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Launch of the axiom-3 launch

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throttlebucket

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Max-Q

hidden sedge
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So odd to see crew views right after liftoff

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Since the NASA crew launches don't allow it

subtle dawn
hidden sedge
inner fable
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sep

subtle dawn
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MECO, SSep, SES-1, BBB start

oblique otter
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Not great visuals from the cape but absolutely incredible sound

inner fable
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there goes the booster

subtle dawn
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lmao looks like one of the MVac stiffeners didn't fly off

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Oh nvm there it goes

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BBS

pseudo fable
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There they go

keen schooner
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FREEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMMM

autumn charm
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still kinda insane how much even Dragon is launching

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SpaceX going way to crazy

viscid skiff
inner fable
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eeb

subtle dawn
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EB @ 4621km/h

inner fable
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what a view

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touchdown

subtle dawn
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🏳️‍⚧️ NDEBSonicRun

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LB

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Tango Delta Nominal

hidden sedge
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Beautiful RTLS landing as always

subtle dawn
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SECO

inner fable
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yey

subtle dawn
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NOI

autumn charm
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oh yeah they're RTLS'ing Crew Dragon

subtle dawn
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hell yeah

autumn charm
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just where did they find this performance again?

subtle dawn
oblique otter
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With sound of the sonic booms and the reactions of those around me

viscid skiff
inner fable
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sep

subtle dawn
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The dragon be dragoning

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Freedom is free

inner fable
subtle dawn
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eyyy dracos

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"reused commander" 💀 💀

hidden sedge
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lmao reused commander

oblique otter
# inner fable nicee

I’d post the launch video, but there isn’t much to see since it was so cloudy

hidden sedge
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Good line kekw

inner fable
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dracos dracoing

hidden sedge
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malfoy

sonic quail
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Reuse of the commander kekw

oblique otter
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Oh yeah he is the first repeat Dragon flier isn’t he

subtle dawn
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"welcome to the Dragon frequent flyer club, I imagine you'll have enough miles to qualify for platinum at this point" lmfao

sonic quail
subtle dawn
rustic valve
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how long has F9 been landing on LZ1 for dragon launches?

zenith sphinx
sonic quail
rustic valve
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oh damn

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was it just performance enhancements in F9? or being allowed less margins?

sonic quail
rustic valve
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good to know

sonic quail
viscid skiff
oblique otter
silk otter
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woah no way

calm marlin
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rahhh

oblique otter
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Wow, that’s gotta be a turnaround record for a person

lyric jackal
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Record number of ppl in space?

hidden sedge
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IIRC some Shuttle astros flew multiple times in a year

oblique otter
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There was one astronaut who flew back to back missions now that I think about it

solemn girder
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Yeah Steve Bowen

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STS-132 and then STS-133

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Went to fly Dragon too recently

sonic quail
subtle dawn
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sanity check since there's some jackwagon on Twitter claiming this was single engine EB and 1-3-1 LB

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I'm 99.99999999% sure it's not (know for a fact Crew-7 wasn't, dunno why this would be different) but, well, sanity checking for a reason

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they literally say 1-3-1/1 in the webcast and on the mission page

calm marlin
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1-3-1?

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I didnt see any expansion from more engines in the entry burn, and it did look like 3 were running and went down to 1 for lb

subtle dawn
calm marlin
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oh

subtle dawn
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Honestly I don't see expansion on either the EB or LB but I assume that's just a visual oddity or I'm not looking closely enough

calm marlin
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I’m pretty sure I saw some engines shut down from the ground view

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during lb

subtle dawn
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yeah it's the cloud

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the like 0.00001% of uncertainty is killing me right now lmao

calm marlin
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light seems to get larger/brighter and then smaller/darker

oblique otter
viral jolt
lavish mango
solemn girder
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F9 landing burns are for the huge majority only single engine

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1-3-1 landing burns have been a thing since early on but not common nor even the norm

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I'd even venture to say there have been less than 20 landings with that burn profile

lavish mango
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I forgot that droneship landings exist. Was there a recent RTLS with single engine all the way?

solemn girder
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Ovzon-3 was single engine

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Unless they're squeezing performance from the rocket, all RTLS landings tend to be single engine

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It's only the ones that need to squeeze performance from the rocket the ones that use 1-3-1

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There's been only a handful of those so far

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Plus the FH side boosters and then a few GTO missions early on had 1-3-1 landing but was changed to single engine within a few landings as they gained experience

subtle dawn
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even with RTLS, downcosted S2 and a relatively heavy payload stack it should still be a super light load

subtle dawn
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the two ships have successfully dicked

silk otter
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🤯🤯

pseudo fable
subtle dawn
keen schooner
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dicked

limber cosmos
limber cosmos
sonic quail
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🚪 Hatch closing: 09:15 GMT / 10:15 CET (Sat 3 Feb)
🅿️👋🏼 Undocking: 11:05 GMT / 12:05 CET (Sat 3 Feb)
🌊 Splashdown: 01:15 GMT / 02:15 CET (Sun 4 Feb)

viral jolt
sonic quail
silk otter
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undockin

zenith sphinx
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dockin't

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my god the axiom livestream chat

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least nationalistic turks

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physical sep time

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go aways

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autumn charm
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we are going back

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time to get hot

proud osprey
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We are so Barack

zenith sphinx
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we are return

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and axiom live chat is as turkish as ever

viral jolt
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Deorbit sequence has start

oblique otter
solemn girder
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It is now under blackout

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For some reason SpaceX keeps showing the wrong infographic on stream

oblique otter
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I was able to see Crew-6 reentry and was hoping I’d be able to see it again but it’s too cloudy outside banished

grand aspen
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Heard the sonics and was very confused LOL

viral jolt
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iss070e087501 (Feb. 7, 2024) --- The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured from a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft. Both spacecraft are docked to ports on the International Space Station's Harmony module. Freedom is seen moments before undocking from Harmony's forward port with the Axiom Mission 3 crew aboard.
https://images.nasa.gov/details/iss070e087501

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viscid skiff
oblique otter
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Looks like a toasted marshmallow