SpaceX F9 : Starlink v1.0 L10, Rideshare : August 18, 2020

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Nice zoomed in pan up booster

https://twitter.com/star_shattered/status/1296864974447562752

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1296883983658221568

Time lapses from today’s lift of Falcon 9 B1049.6. Great showcase of humans for scale.

Lots of cool things to spot here! @SpaceX @elonmusk

🎥: Me for @SuperclusterHQ

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/considercosmos/status/1296928916943384576

Zen views of B1049.6 to start the weekend off right 🧘‍♀️🚀

I love the man toasting the fleet from his beach chair 🏖️ @SpaceX @elonmusk

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1297028083829149702

Gridfins need love too.
These are for you @w00ki33

twitter.com/w00ki33/status/1297029312474882049

Can I join the party?

https://twitter.com/mike_seeley/status/1297034286651060224

Can I join the party?

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1296789811123105793

B1049
SIX
#Falcon9

Zoomed in:

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1297025328221769728

Alright, who stepped on the booster with a giant boot? Huh? I know this booster has been used but dang, that's just abuse. 😏
#B1049 #Falcon9

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1298255297363009536

2nd landing leg retraction just completed 920 pm et -#Spacex  crane crew hard at work ! 1st done at 830 am. b1049.6 #Starlink @PortCanaveral

https://twitter.com/baserunner0723/status/1298255914940555268

2/4 legs raised #SpaceXfleet

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1298271805593907200

3rd landing Leg retraction (front) started 10 am . Crane crew intervened during several pauses for piston work. Done 1045 am. 9 merlins uncovered

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1298294395293270019

All legs Up!! Last landing leg at rear retracted successfully 1125 am ET by crane crew - #spacex historic  1st 6th launch/landed Falcon 9 1st stage B1049.6 @PortCanaveral

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1298321050615373826

Historic 6x recyc #SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1049.1 tilted/lowered horiz 1255PM ET today-after workers successfully retracted all 4 landing legs this AM @PortCanaveral.1st stage to be shipped to Cape/likely reused for new record setting 7thlaunch future #Starlink maybe by year end

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[Danderman]

Per Wikipedia, SkySats have a mass of 110 kg, so 3 SkySats mass at 330 kg, requiring 2 Starlink sats to be dropped from the flight.

I don't know the mass of the SkySat launch adapter, but if Starlink sats mass at 260 kg wet, 2 dropped Starlink sats would reduce the payload mass by 520 kg, not 330 kg. There are almost 200 kg of payload mass unaccounted for, an extra SkySat could have been flown (or the SkySat launch adapter is very heavy).

[smoliarm]

Per Wikipedia, SkySats have a mass of 110 kg, so 3 SkySats mass at 330 kg, requiring 2 Starlink sats to be dropped from the flight.

I don't know the mass of the SkySat launch adapter, but if Starlink sats mass at 260 kg wet, 2 dropped Starlink sats would reduce the payload mass by 520 kg, not 330 kg. There are almost 200 kg of payload mass unaccounted for, an extra SkySat could have been flown (or the SkySat launch adapter is very heavy).

IIRC, SkySats required higher deployment orbit. That's the reason for "unaccounted" kilograms.

[gongora]

The orbit for Skysats didn't seem that different, the orbit for the Blacksky sats was a good bit higher.  The rideshare adapter is sizable, and then the adapter for the Skysats was on top of that:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51258.msg2119979#msg2119979