SpaceX Manifest Discussion Thread

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/whoisheartbreak/status/1738923754825421243

What a week! The whole team has been very active - in the past 7 days we’ve had:

• 2 Starlink launches including Falcon’s life leader booster achieving 19 flights & landings
• Starship Flight 3 vehicle static fire
• Dragon’s CRS-29 return back to Earth
• SARah-2 customer launch marking Falcon’s 94th launch of the year & 256th landing

🤯 And the year isnt even over yet! 😄🚀

[wannamoonbase]

Will the damaged ASOG Octograbber cause schedule issues with the manifest?

[Alexphysics]

As it currently stands, JRTI may not be needed until January 10th due to how the manifest is currently configured. ASOG can take the job and there's an RTLS mission in the middle.

[catdlr]

As it currently stands, JRTI may not be needed until January 10th due to how the manifest is currently configured. ASOG can take the job and there's an RTLS mission in the middle.

Thanks, Alex, that's great news.   JRTI sure could use a rust removal, paint job, and maintenance done while it waits.

[catdlr]

Alex,

Do you or someone else have a current list of active F9 cores available and what launch sites that are located?

Tony

[alain1951]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_boosters

Click "list of boosters" and then "active"

[GewoonLukas_]

Alex,

Do you or someone else have a current list of active F9 cores available and what launch sites that are located?

Tony

I'm not Alex, but I do have a list:

East Coast:
- B1060-18 (F9)
- B1062-18 (F9)
- B1064-6 (FH Side)
- B1065-6 (FH Side)
- B1067-16 (F9)
- B1069-13 (F9)
- B1072-1 (F9 / FH Side)
- B1073-12 (F9 / FH Side)
- B1076-10 (F9 / FH Side)
- B1077-10 (F9)
- B1078-7 (F9)
- B1080-5 (F9)
- B1081-4 (F9)

West Coast:
- B1061-18 (F9)
- B1063-16 (F9)
- B1071-14 (F9)
- B1075-9 (F9 / FH Side)
- B1082-1 (F9)

B1083-1 recently completed testing at McGregor, it's unknown where that booster will be located.

[catdlr]

Thanks to both of you:  alain1951   GewoonLukas_

Tony

[Hog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_boosters

Click "list of boosters" and then "active"

Very nice, great resource.  Impressive data collected there.

Welcome to the forums!

[zubenelgenubi]

Re: Vulcan/Peregrine rollout:

@torybruno getting really excited!  How’s the rocket doing, is she ready to lift off? When do we expect to see that beautiful stack roll out?

It’s going well.  We’ll roll on Friday [Jan 5] if the weather holds. [Jan 2]

(Probably?) no Falcon 9/Starlink launches from SLC-40 while Vulcan is exposed on SLC-41, morning? Jan 5 through NET pre-dawn Jan 8.

[catdlr]

This  Graphic artist keeps track of boosters.  So we have another source.

https://twitter.com/_rykllan/status/1741929419332006324

[Alexphysics]

Re: Vulcan/Peregrine rollout:

@torybruno getting really excited!  How’s the rocket doing, is she ready to lift off? When do we expect to see that beautiful stack roll out?

It’s going well.  We’ll roll on Friday [Jan 5] if the weather holds. [Jan 2]

(Probably?) no Falcon 9/Starlink launches from SLC-40 while Vulcan is exposed on SLC-41, morning? Jan 5 through NET pre-dawn Jan 8.

There's nothing that suggests there's any restriction to launching Falcon 9 with Vulcan next door. It hasn't been an issue with Atlas V, let alone Vulcan.

[wannamoonbase]

Re: Vulcan/Peregrine rollout:

@torybruno getting really excited!  How’s the rocket doing, is she ready to lift off? When do we expect to see that beautiful stack roll out?

It’s going well.  We’ll roll on Friday [Jan 5] if the weather holds. [Jan 2]

(Probably?) no Falcon 9/Starlink launches from SLC-40 while Vulcan is exposed on SLC-41, morning? Jan 5 through NET pre-dawn Jan 8.

There's nothing that suggests there's any restriction to launching Falcon 9 with Vulcan next door. It hasn't been an issue with Atlas V, let alone Vulcan.

SLC-40 and SLC-41 are next to each other but that is still 1+ miles apart.  The risk is minimal.

[spacenuance]

Re: Vulcan/Peregrine rollout:

@torybruno getting really excited!  How’s the rocket doing, is she ready to lift off? When do we expect to see that beautiful stack roll out?

It’s going well.  We’ll roll on Friday [Jan 5] if the weather holds. [Jan 2]

(Probably?) no Falcon 9/Starlink launches from SLC-40 while Vulcan is exposed on SLC-41, morning? Jan 5 through NET pre-dawn Jan 8.

There's nothing that suggests there's any restriction to launching Falcon 9 with Vulcan next door. It hasn't been an issue with Atlas V, let alone Vulcan.

SLC-40 and SLC-41 are next to each other but that is still 1+ miles apart.  The risk is minimal.

Yup, heres people standing right near the VIF at SLC-41 watching Starlink 6-22 go off from pad 40 earlier this year. No rocket out at the pad at this time, but should be no problems as seen with Atlas.

https://twitter.com/haleykesparza/status/1712970353004130744

[GewoonLukas_]

SpaceX VP of Launch:

We are aiming for 144 launches in 2024 (12 per month). The launch system (pads, recovery, flight hardware) needs to be capable of 13/month so we can play catch up when planned maintenance, debacles and weather inevitably slow us down.

https://twitter.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/1742524679091269656

[Martin_G]

For Vandenberg, there is a long list of upcoming launches on the agenda.

If we look at Pad 40 in Florida, it's kind of limited:

Starlink 6-37 ~ Jan 14
Starlink 6-38 ~ Jan 18
Starlink 6-39 ~ Jan 23
Cygnus NG-20 - Jan 29
PACE - Feb 6
- end -

But I guess there are a lot of Starlink launches on a somewhat hidden SpaceX agenda?

[gongora]

There are plenty of launches upcoming from Florida.  We just don't have exact dates for most of them, and they don't get pad assignments until closer to flight although most of them will end up going from 40.

[Conexion Espacial]

425 Project Flight 2 on April, 425 Project Flight 3 on November and 425 Project Flight 4 & 5 on 2025.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240108002400315

[gongora]

Has anyone seen what orbit the 425 Project SAR satellites are going to?

[crandles57]

Has anyone seen what orbit the 425 Project SAR satellites are going to?

Wikipedia seems to think Eirsat-1 was launched to Sun-synchronous orbit though I can't find ref for this.