Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Iridium NEXT - Jan 14, 2017 (17:54 UTC)- UPDATES  (Read 224203 times)

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Glad they finally got around to reading the instructions... :)

Welcome back to flight, SpaceX!
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Big congratz to everyone involved in the launch \o/ Finaly I can relax again, for like a week or so before it's time for Echostar-23 :D

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Good job, SpaceX. Now give us a 2017 to remember!

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Congratulations to SpaceX on the successful RTF and that sweet livestreamed landing!

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Congratulation to SpaceX on return to flight and return to landing! :)

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Congrats, SpaceX! :)
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Picture perfect launch !
To infinity and beyond !
Go SpaceX ! Go Falcon 9 !
Looking forward to LC39 launches, Falcon Heavy triple landing ballet and so much more !
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Offline Bubbinski

Great work on RTF SpaceX! Loved the rocketcam view of landing. More importantly new polar orbiting comsats for Iridium have been deployed successfully, places like Point Barrow, AK, Spitsbergen, Amundsen Scott station at the South Pole and other polar regions have better communications options.

Very good start to 2017 :)
I'll even excitedly look forward to "flags and footprints" and suborbital missions. Just fly...somewhere.

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Congratulation to SpaceX, Iridium, the Western Range and Thales Alenia on the successful launch of this first batch of Iridium NEXT.

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Congratulations to SpaceX ! Each new launch provides us with an even better experience. We could almost forget how hard space is, given how easy you make it look !!!
A successfull launch, a succesfull landing, and (almost) all of that retransmitted in direct for all of us to watch all the way up to space and all the way down to the ground ?
You're spoiling us !!!

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Well done, SpaceXers!  Now, quit making changes and get some hardware in orbit!

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Offline wardy89

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amazing! Congrats to SpaceX for a fully successful mission, it looked so smooth!

That live streamed landing form onboard the first stage jut incredible!

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Brilliant!  It's been a grueling few months without the Falcon 9, but now that it's back, everyone can go back to the boring business of launching and landing rockets.

Congratulations to everyone involved, and here's hoping for a wonderful launch-filled year to come!
All aboard the HSF hype train!  Choo Choo!

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Roger, SpaceX.  We copy 10 in orbit and one on JRTI.  You had a bunch of guys and gals about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
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Iridium is in contact with seven of 10 satellites launched today. Three more to be acquired at next ground station. spaceflightnow.com/2017/01/14/fal…

https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/status/820349677329584129

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Well done, SpaceXers!  Now, quit making changes and get some hardware in orbit!

"There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."

Don't shoot 'em, just spank 'em  ;D

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Congrats on a great launch, landing, and deployment of sats!  Looking forward to a whole lot more this year!

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Hearty congrats to SpaceX.  Kudos for finding a way to make the stage 1 landing video work better.  Big kudos for keeping the webcast going all the way to all deployments confirmed.  Way to go!

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Back on track with a perfect launch and landing.

Lots to look forward to in 2017.
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