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For spring break we're camping at Jetty Park Campground. I hope there's a launch scheduled while we are there.
Here you go. All the known launches scheduled, world wide. https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
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| quote: Originally posted by bubbatime: quote: Originally posted by trapper189:
For spring break we're camping at Jetty Park Campground. I hope there's a launch scheduled while we are there.
Here you go. All the known launches scheduled, world wide. https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Cool, thanks. Looks like a 3/13 launch of a Falcon 9. Lots of TBD for early 2018 and March 2018. |
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| These guys are REALLY good! RMD
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| Just more space junk to be floating around for thousands of years... |
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| quote: Originally posted by mrw:
Somewhere there are a bunch of slide rule rocket engineers from the 60s with big fat smiles on their face. "Mans going to shoot a red sportster coupe into orbit around Mars just for fuck's sake."
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| That would be nice to light off on the 4th of July.
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| They do it often. They do it successfully. They do it a hell of a lot cheaper than NASA. |
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| quote: Originally posted by nhtagmember:
now thats a BFR
Just not the BFR...
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| ^^^  yep, but still...thats gonna be fun to watch and I think SpaceX has a launch tomorrow if memory serves me right
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| Yup, Falcon 9 • Iridium Next 31-40 from Vandy / 8:27:23 p.m. EST; 5:27:23 p.m. PST.
They could recover the 1st stage but it looks like they aren't going to try - it has already been reused once from the second Iridium launch and since it's an earlier Block 3 first stage, likely not worth the effort to recover.
Block 5 FT models are shooting for 10 flights per first stage. |
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| I think this will be the only non-recovery this year not too shabby
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| There were 3 other expendable / no 1st stage recovery flights this year - but by design, as the payloads required all the fuel to boost into orbit, leaving none / not enough for a recovery attempt. But all the attempted recoveries were successful this year.
The early Falcon rockets are more of a testbed to figure out how to make them more easily reusable, with the desire to launch, recover the stage, and then be able to launch it again with only inspections and not extensive refurbishment - basically instead of having to always built new rockets, they'd have a stable of rockets and spacecraft, then reuse them as needed. |
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| quote: Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Yup, Falcon 9 • Iridium Next 31-40 from Vandy / 8:27:23 p.m. EST; 5:27:23 p.m. PST.
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http://www.spacex.com/webcast
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