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Launch Thread: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Starlink-L14 Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:18:38 2020 No.12260221 [Reply] [Original]

Livestream: https://youtu.be/2gbVgTxLgN0
Launch: Thursday October 22 12:14 PM EDT / 16:14 UTC

Probability of violating weather constraints: 50% (https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Starlink%20L-14%20L-1%20Forecast-%2022%20OCT%20Launch.pdf?ver=PJKBVCIDNwzReoNd7STd_g%3d%3d))
Backup launch: Friday October 23 11:53 AM EDT / 15:53 UTC
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with first stage B1060.3 (prior launches: GPS III SV03, Starlink-L11)
Launch pad: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Fairings: ?
Fairing recovery: On fairing recovery vessels "Ms. Chief" & "Ms. Tree"
First stage landing: On autonomous spaceport droneship “Just Read the Instructions”
Payload: 60 Starlink satellites
Payload mass & destination orbit: ~15,600 kg (~260 kg / Starlink sat); 210 x 366 km @ ~53°
TLE: https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink-15.txt
>https://www.starlink.com
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm

Launch viewing guide for Florida: http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html
SpaceX twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX

This will be the 63rd landed first stage, 44th re-flight of a first stage, and 96th Falcon 9 launch. It is the 18th SpaceX orbital launch of 2020.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:22:48 2020 No.12260235 huh appears that the Ms.'s are in port still? So no fairing recovery.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:24:25 2020 No.12260240 Why does Musk get to polite earth and orbit, and ruin the night sky by dumping thousands of space junk machines in or it? Rural people chose to have bad internet, fuck them they don't get to ruin everything

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:25:30 2020 No.12260250 >>12260240 0/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:27:16 2020 No.12260255 >>12260240 >Sent from a huge city where you can't even see the stars through the smog and light pollution

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:27:51 2020 No.12260259 File: 182 KB, 208x292, 1477010725640.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12260221 based launch thread anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:28:28 2020 No.12260262 Pls explode.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:29:41 2020 No.12260268 File: 514 KB, 882x492, 2522523553222.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12260235 This happened on sunday, so presumably repairs are still underway

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:30:07 2020 No.12260272 getting insprucker withdrawal lads

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:31:45 2020 No.12260281 >>12260272 i want a hot indian chick

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:35:31 2020 No.12260296 starlink land grab hehe

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 11:48:01 2020 No.12260346 about half a bong to go before stream

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:01:30 2020 No.12260398 scrubbed

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:01:32 2020 No.12260399 HOLD

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:02:48 2020 No.12260405 fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:02:52 2020 No.12260406 Engine issues still plaguing them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:05:02 2020 No.12260412 >>12260406 in spite of that they've been launching starlink just fine. Of course they're going to be more careful with launching actual people. anyways the weather isn't great today. Only 50% chance of launch from the start

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:05:51 2020 No.12260419 >>12260406 https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1319308251322875905 technical

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:06:23 2020 No.12260420 >>12260412 Well, if it was just weather, they usually don't call a hold at T-13 minutes. >>12260419 Exactly my point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:07:45 2020 No.12260423 >>12260420 so is that it for today or do they try to troubleshoot and go for lauch again?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:08:45 2020 No.12260428 >>12260423 Scrubbed. That's it for today. Listen to the mission control audio.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:09:52 2020 No.12260434 >>12260428 >mission control audio how? link?

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Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:11:23 2020 No.12260441

>>12260434
If you subscribe to their channel on youtube, it always goes live around the one hour before launch mark. I usually have it on my phone during launches. It's around 10-25 seconds ahead of the other stream too.
So you can listen to everything from prop loadout calls to shit like holds and scrub callouts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:12:03 2020 No.12260443 >>12260434 Every launch there are two streams on SpaceX youtube. The other one is mission control

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:15:44 2020 No.12260453 >>12260434 I'll add it to the launch OP going forward

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:27:16 2020 No.12260495 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1319313339026010112 Scrubbed for a camera issue

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:28:40 2020 No.12260506 >>12260495 >ghost of NOAA regulator spooked the camera

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:30:58 2020 No.12260514 >>12260495 >scrubbing a mission just for its upper stage camera i can't tell if this is based or dumb

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Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:37:29 2020 No.12260536

>>12260514
You usually want all parts to be working when you send shit off. If the camera suddenly malfunctions, that might be the sign that something is fucky with the cables somewhere. You don't want to send that fucker up there with 60 satellites only for it to end up failing to ignite second stage due to a loose cable or unable to release the satellites or something like that.

So you scrub and you start probing for issues. Standard procedure. You don't fucking with avionics even if it's "just an upper stage camera".

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:42:09 2020 No.12260560 >>12260536 >all that over a camera what a joke

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 12:43:37 2020 No.12260571 >>12260560 >all that over a camera Systems are not isolated.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 13:13:11 2020 No.12260697 >>12260560 You don't lauch unless everything is working. A camera malfunction might just be a bad camera, but it might also mean something more is not working properly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 13:21:24 2020 No.12260724 >>12260697 >a malfunctioning camera can destroy a whole rocket so this...is the power of spacex

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 13:42:34 2020 No.12260795 >>12260571 Camera is non-critical component, so it's likely isolated from other critical components, but something goes wrong means many other things could go wrong, so they just be very careful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 13:44:53 2020 No.12260809 >>12260795 yeah, in the past they just would have shrugged and launched, but after Challenger and Columbia the culture has shifted to scrubbing at the slightest hitch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 21:37:45 2020 No.12262506 bump in case it's still on for tomorrow, can use the same thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 22 21:44:31 2020 No.12262520 >>12262506 24 October 2020, 15:30 UTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Launches

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Anonymous Fri Oct 23 00:33:47 2020 No.12262907

it's not just the camera, it's the fact that they somehow managed to miss fixing it, which means there could've missed something else as well. The camera is in S2 raceway so it's not trivial to get to. There was another scrub earlier this month which actually ended up being a clogged line, and we've had a bunch of other dumb various fuckups like missing fairing recovery this year. Saying "fuck it just launch lol" is how you blow shit up and kill people if you don't take each of these tiny things seriously.