Author Topic: SpaceX F9 : Starlink v1.0 L9 (Rideshare) : August 7, 2020 (Read 199709 times)

Comga · « **Reply #360 on:** 08/07/2020 06:06 am »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 08/07/2020 06:00 am

Did not recover fairings.

Ignition!

Nominal orbital insertion.

The commentator said:

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...on our fairing halves. We did not catch them this time but we will keep trying."

SpaceX will probably recover them from the water as they have done before.

Great coverage, Steven! Thanks again.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #361 on:** 08/07/2020 06:12 am »

AOS Tasmania.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #362 on:** 08/07/2020 06:13 am »

One minute to Global 7 separation.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #363 on:** 08/07/2020 06:14 am »

Global 7 separation!

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #364 on:** 08/07/2020 06:15 am »

View of Global 7.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #365 on:** 08/07/2020 06:16 am »

Other views.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #366 on:** 08/07/2020 06:18 am »

One minute to Global 8 separation.

Engine showing solid oxygen at top.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #367 on:** 08/07/2020 06:19 am »

Global 8 deploy confirmed.

1 · « **Reply #368 on:** 08/07/2020 06:20 am »

John Insprucker once again proving that he's the best commentator in the business. Lots of interesting operational info in the brief downtime between mission milestones.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #369 on:** 08/07/2020 06:20 am »

Global 8 just coming into view.

Expected LOS Tasmania.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #370 on:** 08/07/2020 06:23 am »

T+1 hour 10 minutes. Heading towards the Pacific Ocean.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #371 on:** 08/07/2020 06:32 am »

T+1 hour 20 minutes. Over the Pacific at night.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #372 on:** 08/07/2020 06:42 am »

T+1 hour 30 minutes. Three minutes to Starlink separation.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #373 on:** 08/07/2020 06:44 am »

One minute to separation. Signals acquired from Global 7 and 8.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #374 on:** 08/07/2020 06:45 am »

Separation confirmed.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #375 on:** 08/07/2020 06:46 am »

Away they go!

TGMetsFan98 · « **Reply #376 on:** 08/07/2020 06:47 am »

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/08/spacex-launch-starlink-v1-0-l9-mission/

https://twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1291626705694728192

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #377 on:** 08/07/2020 06:48 am »

Big week for SpaceX. Dragon 2 return, Starship hop and Starlink launch.

End of webcast.

Congratulations to SpaceX and BlackSky for the successful launch!

Slothman · « **Reply #378 on:** 08/07/2020 07:40 am »

I haven't seen any word about fairing recovery. They said in the webcast that if they catch them, they will show it in the webcast, otherwise keep an eye on social media.

Makes me think that they were fairly confident that they may catch them today and prepared to show it live or semi-live just after catching them, but something happened and they didn't catch them.

M.E.T. · « **Reply #379 on:** 08/07/2020 07:48 am »

Quote from: Slothman on 08/07/2020 07:40 am

I haven't seen any word about fairing recovery. They said in the webcast that if they catch them, they will show it in the webcast, otherwise keep an eye on social media.

Makes me think that they were fairly confident that they may catch them today and prepared to show it live or semi-live just after catching them, but something happened and they didn't catch them.

They already confirmed they didn’t catch them.