The Space Thread - Launches, Events, Live Streams, Governments, Corporations, drama in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace

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First deploy out, even that looked like it got hung up lol. This is wild.

Done deploying all. 30 minutes from now until multi-orbit or return early.
 
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Those V3 Starlinks are big news in and of itself. If they work properly, SpaceX may very well be able to build these orbital data centers they've been talking about. Which would absolutely cream Amazon web services, since the real estate in space is free and so is the energy. The only cost is building the equipment and then getting it there.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Those V3 Starlinks are big news in and of itself. If they work properly, SpaceX may very well be able to build these orbital data centers they've been talking about. Which would absolutely cream Amazon web services, since the real estate in space is free and so is the energy. The only cost is building the equipment and then getting it there.
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They just mentioned that SpaceX has established communication with all 26 of the new satellites. Sounds like good preliminary news on that front.
 
Cronarch said:
Am I misreading or is this really the first time SpaceX reusable rockets have made it to orbit? Have all the previous tests been suborbital?
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Fully reusable yes. Falcon 9 does all the time but the 2nd stage always burns up.

The just said they'll deorbit early in about in about 40 minutes going to off Hawaii instead of Chili.

 
mindlessobserver said:
I wonder what the reasoning is for it
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There's a couple things it could be. They used more fuel to get to orbit because of the lack of performance from the engine out.

It's also possible that they just want this mission over with. They barely even made the decision to go to orbit in the first place, might just want to take the earliest off ramp in case some other issue pops up. If it does, then they will have a few hours to still deorbit it in a planned location. I bet there's some very spooked engineers that are very nervous right now.
 
Kwisatz00 said:
Shit I missed it! Still all good though?

So not planning on six orbits? But it will orbit at least once? (sorry I am watching from beginning for launch, catching up)
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Yes, tons of drama during launch. They did one orbit instead of six, just did the re-entry burn so it's coming back one way or the other now. Pretty much everything worked out, but it was tense. No explanation of why only 1 full orbit but I expect it's due to that shutdown. They'll probably explain that later on.
 
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