R.I.P. Scout26
LabPadre@LabPadreSweet news! Looks like we're gonna get some barbequed cams back. This will be interesting. Thanks @SpaceX
I'll go with 1 month.
Spaceflight Now@SpaceflightNowSpaceX surpassed more than 4,000 Starlink internet satellites in orbit with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and another batch of 56 spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral, the company’s fourth mission in less than a week.📷: @mdcainjr Read more: https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/05/04/fal
Ran out of propellant, OOF! China Clones Starship, Hakuto-R Lithobrakes, & SpaceX's New Launchpad | This Week in Spaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48aF-v5RxLY
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezosCongrats @SpaceX on landing Falcon's suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club!8:49 PM · Dec 21, 2015
ESA Operations@esaoperations🚨 Shocking RIME update 🚨The RIME antenna on @ESA_JUICE is free!!!This Juice Monitoring Camera GIF shows the moments after the Flight Control Team at ESA #MissionControl fired the remaining 'actuator' on the jammed bracket.More info: https://esa.int/Science_Explor
Yay!https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1657069054991925275
Excellent news. It will be interesting to see the mission unfold.
Where's Jeff?https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1655964103482003456
Where does ULA fit in?
Did ULA even launch anything in the 1st quarter?
Was that a pun?
Elon Musk@elonmuskRaptor V3 just achieved 350 bar chamber pressure (269 tons of thrust). Congrats to @SpaceX propulsion team!Starship Super Heavy Booster has 33 Raptors, so total thrust of 8877 tons or 19.5 million pounds.
Chris Bergin - NSF@NASASpaceflightSpaceX Falcon 9 B1067-11 lands on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) and becomes B1067-12.This was the 223rd Falcon 9 launch, 165th reflight of a booster, 191st booster landing, and the 117th consecutive booster landing. The last booster landing failure was on Starlink v1.0 L19 on Feb. 16, 2021!
117th consecutive booster landing.
SpaceX Falcon 9 B1067-11 lands on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) and becomes B1067-12.This was the 223rd Falcon 9 launch, 165th reflight of a booster, 191st booster landing, and the 117th consecutive booster landing. The last booster landing failure was on Starlink v1.0 L19 on Feb. 16, 2021!
This booster reuse number jumps out at me. That is impressive.
Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex)@Alexphysics13SpaceX finally confirms they're certifying boosters to fly up to 20 times. This comes about a year since I originally reported this and even after a SpaceX official had told Aviation Week they were cutting it off at 15 flights...
Raptor 3https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657249739925258240
If you look at modern-day closeup launch footage you may well feel a little disappointed compared to the older film footage from the Apollo and Space Shuttle days. Why is this?, we have modern digital cameras which are better than the old film cameras of the 60s, 70s, & 80s right? Look at almost every close-up shot of recent launches from SpaceX and NASA and you will see them looking grossly overexposed almost as soon as the engines start and certainly when the SRBs light up, something that didn't happen on the Apollo and Shuttle footage. In this video, we look at why image quality has gone backward as camera technology has gone forwards and that old in this case isn’t necessarily bad.
You'd think automatic exposure compensation would be pretty spot on with modern digital cameras.Makes me wonder if the modern digital photographer doesn't possess the knowledge or doesn't care about the craft enough.
