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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 months ago

📆 Thu Jan 16, 2025 : #NewGlenn 🚀 https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7628
📆 Thu Jan 16, 2025 : #Starship 🚀 https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7705
📆 Wed Jan 15, 2025 : #BlueGhost & #HAKUTOR https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6794
📆 March, 2025 #GaganYaan https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1980
📆 May, 2025 #DreamChaser https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/403

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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📆 Thu Jan 16, 2025 23:00 CET ⌚ 23:00 CET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nM3vGdanpw

#SpaceX #Starship

orbitalmayo @orbitalmayo@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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[STARSHIP IFT-7 THREAD 🧵]

Just under T-4 hours until Starship flies for IFT-7.
According to SpaceX, systems and weather look good!

This is the first of the V2 ships, so I'm personally looking forward to seeing how the new and more leeward front flaps perform during re-entry. Fingers crossed for less burn through!

📸: SpaceX

#space #spacex #starship #ift7 #LaunchInformation #bocachica #texas #newspace #launch #rocket

V2 Starship at the launch tower, Boca Chica, TX.

Light cloud cover is visible in the background. The reflective side of the ship (non heat shield side) is the side facing the camera. Small sections of the heat shield are visible. — V2 Starship at the launch tower, Boca Chica, TX. Light cloud cover is visible in the background. The reflective side of the ship (non heat shield side) is the side facing the camera. Small sections of the heat shield are visible.

orbitalmayo @orbitalmayo@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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"Now targeting 4:37 p.m. CT for liftoff of Starship" - SpaceX

That's 22:37 UTC

#space #spacex #starship #ift7 #LaunchInformation #bocachica #texas #newspace #launch #rocket

orbitalmayo @orbitalmayo@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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Some good coverage that doesn't require using X:

[4K] Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px_b5eSzsA

[1080p] Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCG1T06jlk

[1080p] NSF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

[1080p] WAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NupMFUk0Og

[1080p] LapPadre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Bn5BrZix8

As usual, be aware that "official" streams from SpaceX on YT are fake. SpaceX no longer broadcast to YT directly. Please report them.

#space #spacex #starship #ift7 #LaunchInformation #bocachica #texas #newspace #launch #rocket

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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🔴 October 8, 2024 #RocketLab will challenge the program to hit a 📆 2028 launch window https://spacenews.com/nasa-awards-rocket-lab-study-contract-for-mars-sample-return

📆 December 2, 2024 #SpaceX would rely on #Starship. Canceling #MSR would open the door for #China 🇨🇳 to become the first nation to return samples from #Mars https://spacenews.com/foust-forward-who-gets-the-final-word-on-mars-sample-return

#Mars #SampleReturn #NASA #commercial #Neutron

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 5 months ago

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"#NASA Nearly Bet It All on Boeing’s Troubled #Starliner—Here’s Why That Changed" by @Gizmodo / @RabiePassant - #CommercialCrew contract was almost awarded solely to #Boeing, if not for #SpaceX's willingness to test crew escape system in flight https://gizmodo.com/nasa-nearly-bet-it-all-on-boeings-troubled-starliner-heres-why-that-changed-2000504311 #StarlinerCFT

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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The pace of #space launches has reached the point that lots of stuff is always happening. But some things don't go as planned. @LiveScience was able to make a Top 10 list of mishaps in space in 2024. #Starliner figures prominently on the list. But also 3 #Falcon9 groundings, #Starship explosions, and misc probes and rovers. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/10-times-space-missions-went-very-wrong-in-2024 #NewSpace #NASA #SpaceX #Boeing

David August @davidaugust@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

They're gonna get people killed and in so doing also poison the public's view of #SpaceExploration, all because they cannot be bothered to buy an mf-ing generator or something that a f-ing 8th grader could sort out. This recklessness is bad and so typical of the apartheid space douche and his cascading bad ideas. All he does is accumulate money for himself and hurt others.

#Musk is a hazard to all living things, and some non-living things.

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-reportedly-lost-communication-with-private-astronaut-mission-before-historic-spacewalk-2000540517

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David August @davidaugust@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

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Footnotes:

₁ three points-safe - at least three independent components or safety features must fail simultaneously for major disaster happen.

₂ failover - NIST defines as the process of automatically switching to a backup system when the primary system fails. The goal of failover is to minimize or eliminate the impact on users and keep critical systems running.

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#spaceX #space #safety #3PointsSafe #ThreePointsSafe #failover #GroundControl #musk #elon #ElonMusk #disaster #aerospace

David August @davidaugust@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

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"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."

Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 7 months ago

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📊 #ESA 🇪🇺 and its member states forked over $4.4B 💰💰💰💰 to develop #Ariane6. Customer launches are unlikely to pay back development costs any time soon.

#SpaceX has invested over $5B 💰💰💰💰💰 in #Starship 🚀 R&D to date. Starship has proven its expendable capability, and the company is focusing on achieving full #reusability ♻️.

#NASA spent a dizzying $24B 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 developing #SLS
https://payloadspace.com/rocket-development-costs-by-vehicle-payload-research

#DevelopmentCost #LaunchCost

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 3 months ago

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So far this year, #SpaceX has launched a total of 119 Falcon 9 rockets, for an average of a launch every 2.3 days. SpaceX has achieved a flight rate about 30 times higher than the shuttle at one-hundredth 📉 the cost. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/spacex-has-set-all-kinds-of-records-with-its-falcon-9-rocket-this-year

#LaunchCost

DeFrisselle ☑️ @defrisselle@mastodon.sdf.org · 4 months ago

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Elon Musk launched a banana to space on Starship. Here's what happened next

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/elon-musk-launched-a-banana-to-space-on-starship-heres-what-happened-next-2636354-2024-11-20

#NASA #SpaceX #Banana #Spaceship

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 7 months ago

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• #SpaceX plans to increase the size 📏 of the #Starship from 50 m to 70 m, and #SuperHeavy from 71 m to 80 m. The upgraded Starship will stand 150 m tall.
• More power 💪 : To get the larger spacecraft into #orbit, SpaceX will more than double 📈 the amount of thrust for Starship, and increase Super Heavy’s thrust by nearly 40%
https://payloadspace.com/spacex-inches-closer-to-increasing-starship-launches/