/sci/ - Science & Math

It’s been a while lads
Time for another launch

press kit: https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/telstar18vantagepresskit.pdf

Stream::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDvl7PlkYE

pray to musky for a safe launch

Kekd so hard at the media shitstorm

>BREAKING NEWS
>MAN SMOKES WEED

What a non-story. Anyway, good luck Telstar chan!

No fairing recovery? I see the chinks "recovered" one of their fairings by having it land in some peasants back yard, funny shit look it up.

>>9989211
Steve is on the west coast
This is a CCAFS lunch

launch timeline

>>9989211
>No fairing recovery?
Are they launching on the west coast?

>>9989273
Florida, yerp

new stream link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apw3xqwsG1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apw3xqwsG1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apw3xqwsG1U

old one was a mistake

8 bongs to go

I'm glad the big oil/tesla short shills mostly stick to their bait threads and we get to have comfy launch threads.

Vertical

If this one blows up, watch the media connect it to his smoking

>>9991010
Fun fact, f9 is now as reliable as Ariane 5

3 bongs left

pretty quiet launch thread desu

>>9991235
It's becoming so routine and easy man. We need some FH launches or BFR test hops to get people hype again.

>>9991268
or at least solid Mr Steven live footage for Vandy launches

>>9991271
we'll probably never get solid drone ship landing footage
there's just too much fucking vibration

>>9991279
They just need to put the camera on a fucking dinghy 20m away, you would think rocket scientists could figure this out desu.

>>9989206
Elon Musk is a threat to the establishment so the media will try any angle.

>>9991368
>le establishment boogeyman
that monolithic fuckfest is too incoherent to manage anything this specific
everyone is fucking over everyone, the powers that benefit from space being glacial are always at war with the people who don't, whom either want to be the ones on top, or want to see space go big so they can gain power with it
this is a matter of Elon insulting the media, and them all coming like hornets as a result

>>9991448
it's even simpler than that. Any article that mentions Elon gets a lot of clicks. also, negative articles get more clicks than positive articles.

News orgs aren't stupid. They just like money, and clicks=money. Now, that's not to say there are definitely some anti/pro-elon leaning sites.... but overall the whole thing is just a natural extension of how modern news works.

Now then, back to the launch.
100 minutes to go! Wonder if we'll get Insprucker as the host

>>9991268
FH was kino as fuck

elon my thoughts are with you bro

keep dabbin

>>9991457
I only wished that they got their center booster rocket right too. That was a "too bad" moment. Then it would have been a GIGANT moment. Even without the center rocket, it was still a A+++ ranking. With the center booster, it would have been a SSS rank.

>>9991477
I think the fact it didn't explode and got the payload into orbit is big enough.

>>9991477
this
>>9991484
Yeah but it wasn't MAXIMUM level, if FH landed all cores on the first try and everything else went as well as it did then naysayers would be eternally BFTO.

looks stormy http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=local-Orlando-14-48-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

>>9991503
HOLD HOLD HOLD

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/09/falcon-9-telstar-18-vantage-mission-status-center/
>Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center have been reset for T-minus 2 hours and counting, suggesting liftoff is now set for 12 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT).

we /delay/

>>9991521
>>9991503
S C R U B

C

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>>9991519
don't do this i'm so close to cumming

>BuzzFeed: 10 reasons why Elon Musk's marijuana stunt may have caused SpaceX rocket to be delayed

>HuffPo: Elon Musk learned the hard way why smoking pot is bad, and that's a good thing

>HYT: Elon Musk marijuana smoking may have played a role in delay of upcoming SpaceX launch

Washington Post: Sources confirm that government officials halted SpaceX launch after Elon Musk weed stunt

>>9991533
>CNBC: $TSLA drops after Elon Musk violates federal law

>>9991533
fake news

>>9991533
I want to call bullshit but after all the shit they did with Trump, this wouldn't be any lower

>>9991533
It disgusts me how they constantly push the weed agenda but when Musk 420 blazes it he gets reamed by 9000 different journalists.

>>9991543
The nose knows

things to look forward to:
DM-1
first successful fairing recovery
2nd stage experimental parafoil / inflatable test
first 3x reuse
Vandy RTLS (goddamn seals)


also happy Rosh Hashanah everyone

>>9991551
The seals need to reproduce. Seal Lives Matter.

>>9991551
I think they will probably end up panning the 2nd stage recovery and focusing on BFR development.

>>9991554

A lightning advisory is the cause of the delay
>Apollo 12 chuckles in the distance

has there been an animal incident with F9 ever? Minotaur had a 𓆏, shuttle had the bat, etc.

New launch time of 12:30 EST

thats 50 minutes

>>9991643
and that's terrible.

How long is this launch window?

>>9991652
and that's a good thing!

>>9991010
>the moment musk decides whether or not to keep humanity alive once he transcends

>>9991654
And why that's terrifying.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1038998237724594177

New launch time: 12:45 AM EST

They are really hoping to launch before the hurricane arrives..

>>9991653
Four hours. Just like in the OP.

>>9991671
I'm not staying up until 4 on a sunday night

>>9991689
weak

>>9991010 >>9991527

>>9991701
>>9991010
>>9989183
I fucking love that he did this. The pictures are fantastic. Fuck the stocks

It's live.

WE STREAM NAO

>Hi everyone, Joe Rogan here guest hosting for you tonight on the.. Tel..TelStar mission.

Do It For Her

>>9991717
Make it so

>>9991718
>not having her wearing heels, with the heels being the landing legs of the f9

>>9991706

>>9991717
>Jamie pull up that vid of a satellite fighting a chimpanzee

>>9991718
Where is FH and BFR chan? Drawfags get onto it.

>>9991727
absolutely brilliant

LUNCH

INSPRUCKER

>Just now remember there's a launch
>open stream
>just starting
nice

John Insprucker looks like a guy who fucks.

>>9991743

>I told NASA - Don't buy this rocket. Don't buy it.
>And they still bought it. There was nothing I could do.

>>9991742
YAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>9991727
Beautiful

https://coub.com/view/fnmej

T-4:30 and they are still fueling the second stage? They are cutting it close.

>>9991764
That’s normal for block 5. Fueling is really quick

SPACE WEED

FIRST FOR ANOTHER DAGGER IN ARIANA GRANDE AND ULA

BRAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP

CLOUD KINO

Falcon 9: now in COLOR

eat shit ula cunts

COLOUR IMAGES HOLY SHIT

fairing sep

>>9991778
>>9991782
?

BERMNUNA

>"there's a hurricane out there"
from the chatter in the background
uh oh

>>9991778
>>9991782
I think it was always in color, maybe they just adjusted the the exposure or something.

STAGE LANDED

>musks face right now

wtf we didnt get to see it landing
how do we know its real

They need to sort out the droneship camera, it's a disgrace.

30th landed first stage!

>>9991797
looks like they added a tracking camera to the barge, had some nice views before they lost lock due to vibration.

>>9991804
they've had that camera for a few launches prior

>>9991797
spacex drone ship landings are like trump's tax returns. you just take their word for it.

this is a jamming beat. New tracks it seems?

>>9991806
i wish they would put a camera on the recovery ship that is with the drone ship

>>9991797
The droneship live feed always cuts out because the engine causes vibrations on the ship, which causes the uplink antenna to lose it's target.
Simple to fix by having a second ship nearby to relay the feed to via an omnidirectional antenna, but a few seconds of live video isn't worth the cost of having a second ship out there.

When they do a full return to dry land the signal is usually stable.

>>9991797

They could have just randomly picked in their library of night time drone ship landing and nobody would have noticed.

Also, that map looks flat as fuck: FLAT EARTH confirmed.

this new graphic needs some work

This is all so boring now.
I miss my explosions.

>>9991824
well technically it's working

>>9991828
The moment space travel becomes boring is the moment they no longer design specific patches for individual launches.

>>9991828
Don't worry I'm sure Blue Origin will start "launching" soon.

Any day now...

>>9991834

>>9991837

>>9991842

>>9991842
holy shit my sides

>>9991841
noice pic. Never seen one quite like it.

holy fuck new map type

insupriuckcer is back

that mvac ignition reminds me of some surrealist film

>>9989190

Wait isn't 33500 km/h a bit short?

pristine!

I can't wait to see the first Block 5 reuse

>>9991859
Telstar 19V, which is identical, was released at ~32403. seems fine to me

It's a 7 ton satellite so it does do a fair bit of maneuvering to get to GEO

>>9991862
I thought they already did that.

>>9991862
you're behind on the times, lad.
B1046 was reused on August 7th aready

>>9991862
That already happened last month. You mean RE-reuse.

>>9991864
Yeah, just checked that, I thought GEO transfer was about 35000. But I might be confusing it with apogee altitude like the brainlet I am.

I havent followed any of these launches except the falcon 9 heavy in february.
they're not planning on somehow getting the stage 2 back as well right? how many stage 2 rockets do they have for the falcon 9? how long does it take to build one?
also what is this satellite gonna be doing for whatever company it's from

sep!

>>9991867
>>9991865
Oh I've forgotten abou-
>>9991868
yyyyyes... that's exactly what I meant.

>Communication satellite
>Can't maintain video feed connection

the stream was spazzing out

>60th mission
>30th landing

Holy shit.

>>9991871
Presumably Elon still wants it, even though I don't see how they'd make that happen with any weight margin for the payload.
Also, with BFR on the horizon, seems like a waste of engineering power.

>>9991871
the satellite today is a big-ol' communication satellite. Build by SSL, operated by Telesat.
They build S2 as needed. Can't maintain an 'inventory' of them like block 5 1st stages.

It only takes a couple months to build a S2 I think?

>>9991879
Can't flusk the Musk

>>9991879
that includes the one FH mission, which included two landings. Technically the 61st Falcon 9 launch I think

it gets confusing now. also, if you only look at unique cores, of those 60 ~40 have been with 'new' cores or something like that

>>9991871
It's a communications sat.

I think I read they have some ideas on recovering the second stage, but no plans currently.
They have been working on recovering the payload fairing over the last few months. Each half has it's own cold gas thrusters and a parafoil to glide down and land on a boat with a big net. They've been getting close but have yet to stick the landing exactly on the boat.

I'm looking at the upcoming launch schedule. November is going to be busy as fuck, 5 listed for November, and another for Dec 1.

>>9991871
Next Falcon Heavy launch is set for Nov/Dec this year by the way.

next launch is a re-used block 5, B1048. Payload will be SAOCOM-1A, which is an Argentinian earth sensing sat.
It will be the very first RTLS (land-landing) at Vandenberg!

If any anons live in CA I would recommend going down to see the stage return back to land. Should be pretty neat

>>9991900
and it will also be another fairing recovery attempt, weather permitting

>>9991900
The launch pad and landing pad aren't visible from public viewing areas in CA. You may see the rocket go up and down but not as well as in KSC.

Also weather is usually horrible in Vandy with fog.

>>9991900
Pretty sure there's going to be some traffic fatalities in CA if they do that at dawn/dusk.

>>9991909
iirc there were something like 100+ 911 calls during Iridium-4, plus 2+ car crashes

>>9991906
darn

just got around to watching the joe rogan good lord musk starts out so awkwardly

>>9991938
The entire 3 hours is awkward as fuck

>>9991948
>I tried to warn them
>pit
>you wouldn't want to be me

was still enjoyable in a weird way

>>9991948
>uhm, im listening
>yeah
god damn it

anyone here /havenevermissedaSpaceXlaunch/?
I'm pretty sure I've tuned into every single stream since the C1 dragon flight

>>9989181
hahahahaha

>>9992004
What’s with Russians and odd mistakes with manufacturing? It reminds me of the Proton failure where the guidance module was HAMMERED IN backwards, even though it was designed to only go in the correct way

>>9988819
Burning India. I think that's something the world can really get behind.

>>9991368
Elon Musk is going to be seen as an icon of the 2010s in the same way that Howard Hughes is of the 1930s. He is the establishment.

>>9992009

>>9992023
More like

>>9992015
>Howard Hughes
Whom they also tried to slander and ruin.

>>9991728
>Jamie, pull up that documentary on NASA's space chimps.

>>9992040
Yeah they are both very similar when looking back at Hughes' life.

>>9991915
Yeah but most of them are from people either crazy or high, thinking its either aliens or super secret reptillian mind controll rockets

>>9992224
It’ll be extra fun with the sonic booms as well

259 x 18060 km x 26.95° is the final drop off orbit. Basically identical to 19V

whens the next one

>>9993249
Oct 7