#GSAT-20/GSAT-N2 | Falcon 9

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rich haven
dry ridge
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PERFORMANCE NARMAL

median river
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g sat

slate gate
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real

rigid grotto
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6.67×10^-11 sat

zenith forge
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Gsat

stable wind
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I don't think yt does closed captions for livestreams anymore it's so sad

dry ridge
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i dont think they do either

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havent seem them in a while

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very sad, much sad

mellow marsh
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Where's JRTI right now and the ETA for getting back to Port Canaveral?
Is there enough time to support launching on the 18th?

slate gate
rich haven
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I believe the record for time from port to landing zone is something like 36 hours, so should be enough time left to reach the LZ

rich haven
dry ridge
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I’ve never been up there at the right time to see them unfortunately

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Ik where to go to see them but am never there at the right time ☹️

dense patio
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hmmm

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sounds extremely similar

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the ULA spies are back at it

golden kindle
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JRTI is now leaving port

rich haven
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Little less then 2 days to reach the landing zone

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Should be plenty of time

steep sentinel
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They literally lifted the booster right as it docked and it's on the port with no stand lmao

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Absolute sight

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golden kindle
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three boosters in port right now

steep sentinel
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No longer

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The other has rolled off

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Nevermind, it's still there

dry ridge
dense patio
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B1073

stable wind
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huhge

dry ridge
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Peculiar

dense patio
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and the fun little pictures for each mission because why not

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rich haven
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SpaceX Mission Patch

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hearty kayak
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25.86 day turnaround of B1073, 7th fastest overall

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And record JRTI turnaround at 4.215 days, current record 4.742 days (not particularly impressive compared to ASOG's record of 3.509 days)

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And B1073 will become fastest booster to 19 launches, beating old record of 985 days by B1071 with 918 days

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And with this launch SLC-40 will match its total of 55 launches from last year, with a month and a half left to go (SLC-4E and 39A long ago passed their respective totals)

dry ridge
thick cliff
dry ridge
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BIRB

rich haven
dry ridge
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So basically it’s not delaying

rich haven
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Yep

dry ridge
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I just need it to delay like 10 minutes

rich haven
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They'd need to scrub for the day for that, so then it's delaying more then 10 minutes TrollPolite

dry ridge
rich haven
dense patio
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F9 cant hold prop load and restart

slate gate
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is that an old photo?

dense patio
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something something super chilled

dry ridge
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I see

rich haven
dense patio
rich haven
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Why would it be?

dense patio
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fairing related i tell ya

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oh didnt that

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wait

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huh

slate gate
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where tf they got that 2nd stage with small velcro pads, last time we saw it on SL 10-7 launch mid-August

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after that there only been long velcro pads (or basically no velcro/MEK)

dense patio
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probably a reserved older stage

slate gate
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been a long reserve TrollPolite

dense patio
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indian government got freaked out after F9 failures in july/august

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so they probably reserved it in july

rich haven
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Yeah that's probably the case

slate gate
dense patio
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whats the fun in that

rich haven
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This was originally scheduled to launch in Early-August

slate gate
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nvm just being silly TrollPolite

dense patio
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yeah i know

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and ill repeat

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whats the fun in removing it

rich haven
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Viasat will actually be using this satellite to provide in-flight connectivity over India, because for some reason they're not allowed to use their own satellites for that

dense patio
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go live already space sex

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holy shit im a wizard

rich haven
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Now live

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Lmao

true sluice
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nonstandard host

hearty kayak
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Fairings flying for 5th and 1st times

dense patio
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im placing bets, SN213 for one of them

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and 220 for the other

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where the FUCK are my fairing SNs

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rich haven
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Startup

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Liftoff!

hearty kayak
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16 Falcon 9 launches in the last 30 days

rich haven
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Max-Q

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MECO

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Stage sep

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SES-1

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Fairing sep

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Entry burn

stable wind
rich haven
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Entry burn shutdown

rich haven
stable wind
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damn

rich haven
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Landing burn

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SECO-1

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NOI

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Landing confirmed

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First JRTI landing for B1073 in over a year

true sluice
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michael baylor from nsf

rich haven
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Mike Taylor retiring from SpaceX after almost 17 years

dry ridge
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It was unfortunately too cloudy to see

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And my phone died right before so I couldn’t watch the stream 💀

slate gate
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average Florida experiece TrollPolite

rich haven
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SES-2

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SECO-2

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Nominal orbit

steep sentinel
rich haven
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Spacecraft separation!

steep sentinel
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Updated

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slate gate
steep sentinel
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Yes

slate gate
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aight

rich haven
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Already talking to the satellite

rigid grotto
dry ridge
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Man

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Didn’t we just hit 300

uncut zealot
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um... there's 2 more to F9-400

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this was F9-398

steep sentinel
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This one was F9-408 for me

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Cuz I count FH in that

uncut zealot
dense patio
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F9 includes FH??

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..why

steep sentinel
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It's three F9 boosters

rigid grotto
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not 3 F9 S2s tho

steep sentinel
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Delta IV Heavy doesn't have three DCSS either

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What's more

rigid grotto
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yeah but that doesnt count as three Delta IV launches does it

steep sentinel
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Delta IV Medium has two types of second stages

rigid grotto
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i mean unless this checklist u have is F9 booster launches

steep sentinel
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So do you count those as different flight numbers

rigid grotto
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then thats fair

steep sentinel
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It's just launches

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Falcon Heavy is part of Falcon 9 because it uses the same hardware by pretty much all means

uncut zealot
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Falcon Heavy has its own separate flight numbers... uhhh

rigid grotto
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personally id keep them separate but who am i to tell u im just an irrelevent internet user

true sluice
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if falcon heavy is part of falcon 9, then how do you differentiate between f9+fh launches and f9 launches?

rigid grotto
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its part of the falcon 9 family

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but i wouldnt class it as a f9 launch

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same way a Delta IV Heavy is part of the Delta IV family but its separate to the Delta IV medium

steep sentinel
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It ain't that hard

true sluice
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i meant when you say stuff like the 400th falcon 9 launch

steep sentinel
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Not sure what you mean

true sluice
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by your definition, that number includes fh and f9. what if you wanted to express only the number of f9 launches, excluding fh? it would be stupid to say ”400th falcon 9 launch, not counting falcon heavy launches”

steep sentinel
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I still don't get it

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I don't need the F number to know how many Falcon 9s have been launched

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Again, let me point this to you lol

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It's all automated to count them without needing to even look at whatever F number they have

rigid grotto
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so 33 of those 399 are FH F9s

steep sentinel
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Wtf

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No

true sluice
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but you said the number of falcon 9 launches includes falcon heavy launches

rigid grotto
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yeah exactly

steep sentinel
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No

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I said the F number included Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy

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It's not even the number of Falcon launches

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Because there have been more Falcon launches than F numbers

rigid grotto
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which one is the F number

steep sentinel
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Oh my fucking god

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The fucking F-XXX whatever

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That's an F number

rigid grotto
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ok

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thank you

true sluice
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does F mean flight

steep sentinel
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It's completely different from the table before

rigid grotto
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alright

steep sentinel
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It just takes how many missions are under Falcon 9 and Falcon 1, Falcon Heavy, and Starship

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And then it spits out which ones were successful and which ones were not

rigid grotto
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does F number include the 4 F1s?

steep sentinel
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No because it's a completely different rocket

true sluice
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alex i dislike your numbering system

steep sentinel
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It wasn't even made with the same type of aluminum

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For starters

rigid grotto
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alright

steep sentinel
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Also it was 5 F1s

rigid grotto
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but hey who cares if its not ours

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if it suits alex then it doesnt matter

steep sentinel
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And it also counts suborbital launches of the full Falcon 9 rocket such as the one for In-Flight Abort Test

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So far there have been 397 orbital launches of Falcon 9, 395 of which have been successful

rigid grotto
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so 3 more till 400 orbital ones

steep sentinel
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And 5 to 400 successful

rigid grotto
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next one is 400 if u count those two then

true sluice
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this is like counting the countries of the world

uncut zealot
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Is AMOS-6 counted in the "official" flight numbers for F9?

uncut zealot
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I need something to put in the parentheses under "Starship Flight #" other than "(IFT-#)"

stable wind
steep sentinel
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Nah I made that one up for my own spreadsheet

stable wind
steep sentinel
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SH stands for Starship Super Heavy

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I'm too lazy to have SSH so I used SH

uncut zealot
steep sentinel
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Also because it sounds like n*zi shit

odd rapids
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ssh is and will forever be sea surface height to me 😭

stable wind
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F1, GH, F9R, F9, FH, SN, SH
easy

dry ridge
uncut zealot
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I'm not happy about the IFT thing either but as I've said many times I can't replace it until SpaceX releases an actual numbering system

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dry ridge
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Just please don’t use IFT

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Use FLT

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or SFT

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Something besides it

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IFT makes me wanna throw up im sorry 💀

true sluice
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otf

dry ridge
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Absolutely not

hearty kayak
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SpaceX uses FLT in all of their NOTAMs

uncut zealot
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Also as much as I want to replace the IFT rn I just think it's funny how it pisses everyone off which is why I'm still gonna leave it until SpaceX gives an actual designation

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Where did the F9-### and FH-### numbers even come from in the first place

true sluice
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alex made them up

uncut zealot
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excuse me

dense patio
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F9 and FH- have been used for a while now

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i’m not sure where they came from but it’s bow they’re listed on wiki

slate gate
true sluice
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define successful launch

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new documentary by matt walsh titled what is a successful launch

zenith forge
median river
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payload deployment in a usable orbit
a usable orbit is defined as one that can be utilised for the satellite's primary functions

zenith forge
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yeah

zenith forge
dense patio
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payload gets into an unusable orbit

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but an orbit nonetheless

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or only one of the few payloads fails to get to its designed orbit

hasty wolf
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As always McDowell has the answer to such questions lol

rich haven
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He says off-nominal orbit but usuable is a partial success

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And orbit but not usuable is a failure

slate gate
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afaik Zuma wasn't successful (I don't rember who claimed it, might be my poor memory making it up), but it's counted in as well KEK

rich haven
slate gate
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ye I rember Northrop supplied PAF adapter and it didn't work 💀

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I meeeean

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rocket did work, it did achieve intended orbit

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just one particular element didn't succeed TrollPolite

rich haven
slate gate
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What ship went to scoop the fairings? CB_Dwayne_huh

steep sentinel
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Bob

slate gate
steep sentinel
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I'd expect Doug to remain out there for 6-66

rich haven
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1651 m/s to GEO

pearl dagger
vague oxide
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booster

pearl dagger
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bostre

steep sentinel
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That's in UK English

rigid grotto
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boosta

slate gate
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Did Bob came back to port with fairing halves? HUH