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Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

SECO, nominal parking orbit.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Stage 2 LOX load is complete.

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Stage 1 LOX load is complete.

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Fairing halves are flying for their 20th and 10th times.

Stage 1 RP-1 load is complete.

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Hosted webcast has started. Chris Gebhardt is hosting!

Optus-X/TD7 launch thread in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Propellant load has started.

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Optus-X/TD7 launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-17, 22:28 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-17, 17:28 (EST) | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1077-16 | | Landing | A Shortfall of Gravitas | | Payload | Optus-X/TD7 | | Customer | Optus | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUgL7P8LrOk | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9a0aMJ7Lyo | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p11tCjqKN5I | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1858273649871982643 | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 21st launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 6 days, 5:06:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 44th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 85th landing on ASOG

☑️ 371st Falcon family booster landing, 377th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 111th Falcon 9 mission this year, 397th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 113th SpaceX mission of 2024, 413th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 116th SpaceX launch this year, 427th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

An unannounced geostationary communication satellite built by Northrop Grumman, alleged for the Australian telecommunications operator Optus. Details TBD.

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them; Despite 49% surge in shipments, buyers seem unconvinced. in c/futurology@futurology.today
Religious LGBTQ+ folks who are also anarchist have no safe place to speak their minds, and I think it's a shame. in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

As Emperor said, "if you see a need for a community, start it".

There's a time and a place in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are they from a movie/show of some sort?

Crossover episode in c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn't be able to harm the One Ring

I don't remember this. Where was this mentioned? Council of Elrond?

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I Mush ❤️ Room (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Busy start to the week... (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1857909172173734251

SpaceX teams targeting four launches from all four launch pads in Texas, Florida, and California

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So there is a Starship-chan too... (pbs.twimg.com)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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"we choose to go to mars in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
— starship chan, 2026, at starbase, BocaChica

Source

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TIL that Taco Bell placed a target for Mir's re-entry in 2001 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works
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https://spacenews.com/free-tacos-for-us-if-mir-hits-floating-taco-bell-ocean-target-taco-bell-sets-40-by-40-foot-target-in-south-pacific-for-mirs-re-entry/

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FAA moves forward with committee to review launch licensing regulations (spacenews.com)
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Astronomers discover two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens (phys.org)
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GET YOU FIRST CHECKE BAG FR RDEE (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Another one bites the dust (sh.itjust.works)
 

Context: ABL Space abandons the RS1.

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Impulse Space buys three Falcon 9 launches (spacenews.com)
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Tianzhou-8 spacecraft delivers supplies, key experiments to Tiangong space station (spacenews.com)
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TIL SLS-chan is a thing (pbs.twimg.com)
 

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