SpaceX F9: Starlink v1 Flight 1 : November 11, 2019 - UPDATES

[theinternetftw]

https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink.txt

Quick visualization of the altitudes via the current TLEs.

Edit: Note that the TLEs look to have the official SpaceX sat designations.  This flight consisted of STARLINK-1007 to STARLINK-1068, skipping STARLINK-1066 and STARLINK-1018.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1195241700580560899

*Yawns* Morning!

OCISLY is offshore from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and not far from an arrival in a few hours.

A string of inbound cruise ships (blue) take priority and will arrive first.

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1195273865049640960

First cruise ship is in, second approaching now. OCISLY will come in sometime after the third but is still quite a while away.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195313327427194880

Oh hey there B1048.4. The Atlantic is being a bit dramatic this morning.
#SpaceXFleet #OCISLY

Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1195312746763636736

Pilot and tugboats are on the way out to assist OCISLY.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/kyle_m_photo/status/1195315415918022658

Pilot boat and the tugs on their way to OCISLY.  #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX #OCISLY @SpaceXFleet

[Chris Bergin]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195318582994972672

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195326754631618561

It's been so long.
Of Course I Still Love You#SpaceXFleet #Starlink

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195326524817317888

julia_bergeron
 Merlins and human for scale. Great job @octagrabber. 😏 #SpaceXFleet

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195325867662172161

She's a beauty.#B1048 #SpaceX #Didthatfourtimes

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/theresa35906612/status/1195337963573526528

theresacross @PortCanaveral with #OCISLY moving into position for removal of #B1048.4 let see how they treat her legs, fold them or take them off @SpaceX #spacex #B1048.4 #falcon9 🚀👇🏼@elonmusk

https://twitter.com/kyle_m_photo/status/1195337223253766144

OCISLY is almost finished docking.  #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX #OCISLY @SpaceXFleet

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1195379087952547842

The cap and the stand are integral parts of booster recovery. This cap is the one that enables retraction of the legs once it is placed on the stand. Unfortunately I had to get to work but @ken_kremer is in port keeping an eye on the progress. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX

https://twitter.com/mike_seeley/status/1195372725109477376

Frequent flyer: The now 4th flown & 4th landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 returned home this (Fri) morning.

This rocket boosted #Starlink satellites to orbit Monday morning, & landed (again) successfully, hopefully for another flight.

Congrats @elonmusk & the SpaceX team!

(Pics: me)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1195390847858204678

That’s not your average claw machine, and definitely not your average prize! 🚀

The lift cap has been attached to Falcon 9 B1048.4 ahead of the booster’s offloading from OCISLY.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/theresa35906612/status/1195439491206598657

theresacross @PortCanaveral | she’s up 🚀 #OCISLY #B1048.4 @SpaceX #SpaceX @elonmusk #StarlinkSatellites #Starlink #falcon9  more to come!!!!

https://twitter.com/theresa35906612/status/1195441605441916929

theresacross | moving #b1048.4 to the platform 🚀#OCISLY @SpaceX #SpaceX @elonmusk @Zshaul1 #Starlink #StarlinkSatellites

[PM3]

Space-Track with yet another numbering scheme, and again with gaps:

NORAD    SAT             NSSDC        PERIOD  INCL    APO   PERI

44713    STARLINK 1007   2019-074A    90.59   53.01   304   303
44714    STARLINK 1008   2019-074B    90.51   53.01   303   296
44715    STARLINK 1009   2019-074C    90.58   53.01   304   302
44716    STARLINK 1010   2019-074D    90.58   53.01   305   301
44717    STARLINK 1011   2019-074E    90.62   53.01   307   303
44718    STARLINK 1012   2019-074F    90.58   53.01   304   302
44719    STARLINK 1013   2019-074G    90.57   53.01   303   302
44720    STARLINK 1014   2019-074H    90.59   53.01   306   301
44721    STARLINK 1015   2019-074J    90.59   53.01   306   301
44722    STARLINK 1016   2019-074K    90.59   53.01   305   302
44723    STARLINK 1017   2019-074L    90.59   53.01   306   301

44724    STARLINK 1019   2019-074M    90.58   53.01   305   300
44725    STARLINK 1020   2019-074N    90.61   53.01   306   303
44726    STARLINK 1021   2019-074P    90.58   53.01   306   299
44727    STARLINK 1022   2019-074Q    90.55   53.01   303   299
44728    STARLINK 1023   2019-074R    90.59   53.01   306   301
44729    STARLINK 1024   2019-074S    90.61   53.01   307   302
44730    STARLINK 1025   2019-074T    90.59   53.01   306   301
44731    STARLINK 1026   2019-074U    90.58   53.01   304   302
44732    STARLINK 1027   2019-074V    90.57   53.01   304   302
44733    STARLINK 1028   2019-074W    90.58   53.01   304   301
44734    STARLINK 1029   2019-074X    90.60   53.01   305   303
44735    STARLINK 1030   2019-074Y    90.61   53.01   306   302
44736    STARLINK 1031   2019-074Z    90.61   53.01   305   304
44737    STARLINK 1032   2019-074AA   90.62   53.01   308   302
44738    STARLINK 1033   2019-074AB   90.61   53.01   307   302
44739    STARLINK 1034   2019-074AC   90.61   53.01   305   303
44740    STARLINK 1035   2019-074AD   90.61   53.01   309   300
44741    STARLINK 1036   2019-074AE   90.62   53.01   306   304
44742    STARLINK 1037   2019-074AF   90.60   53.01   306   302
44743    STARLINK 1038   2019-074AG   90.64   53.01   307   305
44744    STARLINK 1039   2019-074AH   90.65   53.01   307   306
44745    STARLINK 1040   2019-074AJ   90.16   53.01   288   276
44746    STARLINK 1041   2019-074AK   90.64   53.01   307   305
44747    STARLINK 1042   2019-074AL   90.56   53.01   305   298
44748    STARLINK 1043   2019-074AM   90.61   53.01   306   303
44749    STARLINK 1044   2019-074AN   90.40   53.01   298   290
44750    STARLINK 1045   2019-074AP   90.62   53.01   306   304
44751    STARLINK 1046   2019-074AQ   90.65   53.01   309   304
44752    STARLINK 1047   2019-074AR   90.62   53.01   306   304
44753    STARLINK 1048   2019-074AS   90.60   53.01   305   303
44754    STARLINK 1049   2019-074AT   90.60   53.01   306   301
44755    STARLINK 1050   2019-074AU   90.54   53.01   303   298
44756    STARLINK 1051   2019-074AV   90.60   53.01   307   301
44757    STARLINK 1052   2019-074AW   90.60   53.01   305   303
44758    STARLINK 1053   2019-074AX   90.58   53.01   304   302
44759    STARLINK 1054   2019-074AY   90.57   53.01   306   299
44760    STARLINK 1055   2019-074AZ   90.54   53.01   304   298
44761    STARLINK 1056   2019-074BA   90.56   53.01   304   300
44762    STARLINK 1057   2019-074BB   90.60   53.01   305   303
44763    STARLINK 1058   2019-074BC   90.60   53.01   307   301
44764    STARLINK 1059   2019-074BD   90.60   53.01   306   302
44765    STARLINK 1060   2019-074BE   90.61   53.01   306   302
44766    STARLINK 1061   2019-074BF   90.59   53.01   306   301
44767    STARLINK 1062   2019-074BG   90.57   53.01   304   302
44768    STARLINK 1063   2019-074BH   90.62   53.01   306   304
44769    STARLINK 1064   2019-074BJ   90.63   53.01   306   305
44770    STARLINK 1065   2019-074BK   90.61   53.01   306   304

44771    STARLINK 1067   2019-074BL   90.60   53.01   306   301
44772    STARLINK 1068   2019-074BM   90.60   53.01   306   303

[theinternetftw]

Looks like they're raising by a little under 5km a day.  (Attachment is an animated gif)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Check out the tweeted link for a really good look at returned booster:

https://twitter.com/mike_seeley/status/1195543997034516480

Frequent flyer, in high-resolution: Get up close and personal with this view of the 4x flown & 4x landed #SpaceX #Starlink #Falcon9.

This is a 234-megapixel image, explorable here:
https://michaelseeley.prodibi.com/a/81qwjmol84qmje/i/1jq2zz90qojdz4r

cc: @SpaceXFleet

[jketch]

It looks like Starlink 1040 has finally started raising it's orbit on the latest TLEs. Orbits per day is down from 15.973 yesterday to 15.963 today, so all sixty satellites are headed toward 350km. If i'm reading the TLEs correctly all sixty satellites are decreasing the number of orbital periods by about 0.021 revolutions per day^2, or an orbital height increase of 4.5km per day.

https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink.txt

[theinternetftw]

It looks like Starlink 1040 has finally started raising it's orbit on the latest TLEs.

Hard to say what the plan is for it.  Animated gif of the past three days.

Edit: Whoops, my data was from the beginning of today, not the end.  1040 is definitely booking it now.

Also, big props for the cadence of public telemetry updates compared to the first 60.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/nexthorizons_/status/1196084150316490759

The lines for leg raising have been strung down to at least 2 legs on #Starlink Falcon 9 B1048.4. No activity at the moment, however.

[Rondaz]

WATCH: Milestone for Port Canaveral crane. For the first time, Port Canaveral's new mobile harbor crane lifts a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from SpaceX droneship of Course I Still Love You a few hours after the droneship carrying the reusable rocket stage arrived at the Port Fri morn..

https://twitter.com/PortCanaveral/status/1195471801909993472

[theinternetftw]

There's a great visualization of starlink over on reddit right now, along with another kind of altitude plot which includes the debris.

The latter also has a link to a tweet saying that Starlink telemetry updates come at 0430, 1230, and 2030 UTC.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1196462286967394307

The answer is....
The legs are being retracted on B1048.4. The first leg is happening now. #Starlink #SpaceX

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1196466469263069184

There must have been a hiccup.  They have lowered the first leg. 😞

[RocketLover0119]

Leg retraction commencing again!

https://twitter.com/NextHorizons_/status/1196503850645110787