Launch Thread: SpaceX Falcon 9 - GPS III Space Vehicle 03

[Anonymous No.11854158]

Space Force edition

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zr0nfG3Xy4
Launch: Tuesday, June 30 3:55 PM EDT / 19:55 UTC (15 minute window)
Probability of violating weather constraints: 40% (https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20GPS%20III-3%20L-0%20Forecast%20-%2030%20Jun%20Launch.pdf?ver=2020-06-30-092035-963))
Backup launch: Wednesday, July 1 3:51 PM EDT / 19:51 UTC.
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with NEW first stage B1060.1
Fairings: New
Launch pad: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA
First stage landing: On droneship 'Just Read the Instructions'
Fairing recovery: No soft catch being attempted
Payload: GPS 3-series navigation satellite (SV03)
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html
>https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/gps.html
>https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/06/spacex-launch-third-gps-block-iii-satellite/
>https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/06/29/u-s-military-makes-adjustments-in-gps-launch-to-allow-for-spacex-booster-landing/
Payload mass & release orbit: 4,311 kg; 400 km x 20,200 km @ ~55°
Launch viewing guide for Florida: http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html
SpaceX twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX
SpaceX launch statistics: This will be the 55th landed first stage, and 88th Falcon 9 launch. It is the 11th SpaceX launch of 2020. This is the first SpaceX launch under the Space Force.

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[Anonymous No.11854174]

>>11854163
You’d be surprised what some people manage to do out of stupidity

[Anonymous No.11854182]

LAUNCH, LANDING AND DEPLOYMENT
HR/MIN/SEC EVENT
00:01:11 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
00:02:31 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:35 1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:42 2nd stage engine starts (SES-1)
00:03:28 Fairing deployment
00:06:45 1st stage entry burn complete
00:08:07 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1)
00:08:30 1st stage landing
01:03:28 2nd stage engine starts (SES-2)
01:04:13 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
01:29:14 GPS III Space Vehicle 03 deployment

[Anonymous No.11854184]

>>11854182
holy shit that pic is PHALLIC

[Anonymous No.11854196]

>>11854182
RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE

[Anonymous No.11854215]

It is launchday my dudes!

[Anonymous No.11854262]

>>11854215
already delayed to the end of the 15 minute launch window. Probably will be a weather scrub.

[Anonymous No.11854266]

>>11854215
It is scrubbed day my dudes!

[Anonymous No.11854342]

Falcon9/H has single handedly btfo out of old space. The ariane 6 is delayed to 2021 and already obsolete.

We're going to have 10 to 15 years of watching old space try and copy the 9. Lots of failed booster landing videos to come

[Anonymous No.11854344]

>>11854196
ewwww

[Anonymous No.11854351]

>>11854342
I wonder if the Chinks will beat oldspace to the punch on landing boosters. Would not be surprised at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJFsK6z3moU

[Anonymous No.11854353]

>>11854342
>Lots of failed booster landing videos to come
Nah, unlike SpaceX they won't show the failures

[Anonymous No.11854359]

>no jessy
:(

[Anonymous No.11854367]

LIVE LIVE LIVE

[Anonymous No.11854370]

S T R E A M

[Anonymous No.11854371]

dance party time

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[Anonymous No.11854380]

name of today's intro song?

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[Anonymous No.11854384]

Cute twink

[Anonymous No.11854387]

Where the fuck is my spacegirl

[Anonymous No.11854390]

>>11854359
and thats a good thing

[Anonymous No.11854393]

The deck of JRTI looks like shit today

[Anonymous No.11854394]

>>11854266
Noooo! You have to believe!

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>>11854371

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>>11854390
"No".

[Anonymous No.11854398]

fuck this dweeb. bring on jessy!

[Anonymous No.11854399]

hehe he said erecto- OH SHIT ITS JOHN

[Anonymous No.11854400]

sprucc has arrived

[Anonymous No.11854401]

/ourguy/ is here

[Anonymous No.11854402]

JOHN
O
H
N

[Anonymous No.11854403]

SPRUCC

[Anonymous No.11854405]

LAUNCHDAY!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.11854412]

what a gorgeous day!

[Anonymous No.11854413]

>>11854412
A day to launch?

[Anonymous No.11854414]

SPRUCC

[Anonymous No.11854416]

what's the actual weather concern here? Just landing the booster?

[Anonymous No.11854420]

I mean they can just revert like everybody else.

[Anonymous No.11854423]

>>11854390
No

[Anonymous No.11854427]

GPS really seems like magical tech even now it's so useful

[Anonymous No.11854429]

God bless gps and god bless the U S of A

[Anonymous No.11854430]

They are Go,
Are we Go?

[Anonymous No.11854431]

GO FOR LAUNCH

[Anonymous No.11854435]

My Chinese intelligence sources tell me that this launch is being sabotaged.

[Anonymous No.11854436]

>>11854427
imagine telling someone 100 years ago that we would have a permanent solution to "getting lost"

[Anonymous No.11854437]

>>11854430
WE GO!!!

[Anonymous No.11854439]

GREEN FOR LAUNCH

[Anonymous No.11854440]

where the fuck did all the clouds go

[Anonymous No.11854441]

we gaan

[Anonymous No.11854444]

WE GAAN

[Anonymous No.11854446]

>>11854430
jessy appreciation is go

[Anonymous No.11854447]

>>11854430
I'm Gogo!

[Anonymous No.11854448]

>>11854430
>tfw no jessie

[Anonymous No.11854450]

>>11854430
>comms
GO

[Anonymous No.11854451]

>well over 200k watching this launch

dayum

[Anonymous No.11854452]

t-00:01:30

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[Anonymous No.11854454]

Hey Spacex, /sci/ is GO!

[Anonymous No.11854456]

>see thread just with 1 min left

[Anonymous No.11854457]

it's going to blow up sry guys

[Anonymous No.11854458]

nice hiss

[Anonymous No.11854459]

Go for launch

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t-00:00:00

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Gogo!

[Anonymous No.11854465]

>>11854460
>>11854461
hivemind

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Q

[Anonymous No.11854469]

>throttle bucket
talk dirty to me john

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N O M I N A L
O
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A
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N O M I N A L
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MECO

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MIKU :3

[Anonymous No.11854479]

>>11854472
>>11854474
based

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>>11854472
>>11854474

>>11854465

[Anonymous No.11854486]

Fairing sep

[Anonymous No.11854488]

land me daddy

[Anonymous No.11854489]

motherfuckin john assburger cast, can it get any better lads?

[Anonymous No.11854490]

>>11854470

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>>11854489
yeah, free Taco Bell today if you have an account

[Anonymous No.11854495]

when are these people going to let us buy stock?

[Anonymous No.11854496]

What are those? UFOs?

[Anonymous No.11854498]

>>11854495
hopefully never

[Anonymous No.11854499]

this guy talks like a faggot i want to fuck h im in the ass

[Anonymous No.11854500]

2 min to landing!

[Anonymous No.11854503]

>>11854495
are you retarded

[Anonymous No.11854505]

>>11854496
nitrogen ice, probably

[Anonymous No.11854507]

>>11854496
yes. aliens confirmed

[Anonymous No.11854508]

>>11854496
Yes, and don't let anyone tell you that it's just ice, unless the rocket crashes and then it's debris from the rocket.

[Anonymous No.11854509]

>>11854495
Never, you can buy martian land options though. Most oligarchs are anti space and would crash the company on purpose.

[Anonymous No.11854510]

>>11854495
hopefully never

[Anonymous No.11854514]

>>11854495
imagine robinhood zoomers buying spacex stock

[Anonymous No.11854518]

Landed!

[Anonymous No.11854519]

LANDED

[Anonymous No.11854521]

Looks pretty clean for a landed rocket

[Anonymous No.11854522]

Never gets old.

[Anonymous No.11854523]

That never gets old. Awesome.

[Anonymous No.11854524]

This is the most pristine first stage I've seen yet. did they change the paint or something?

[Anonymous No.11854525]

>The launch profile adjustment to make landing of the Falcon 9 booster possible ended up saving “several million dollars” for the military from the original SpaceX launch contract value of $96.5 million, according to Walter Lauderdale, mission director for the GPS SV03 launch from the Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.

nice

[Anonymous No.11854526]

wtf was that?

[Anonymous No.11854528]

Fuck I love spaceships

[Anonymous No.11854531]

Didn't cut off signal, but holy crap those artifacts

[Anonymous No.11854533]

What a based guy.

[Anonymous No.11854536]

>>11854523
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>>11854519
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>>11854510
>>11854498
has sfg developed telepathic abilities?

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>>11854518

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Three people cheered. This stuff is loosing interest even among the emloyes. Or is it just covid?

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>>11854538
It's routine now

[Anonymous No.11854540]

F for Tom.

Who the fuck was Tom?

[Anonymous No.11854541]

>>11854538
90+ launch

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>>11854531
I assume it's the getting blasted with massive amounts of ionized air that's sort of bad for signal quality?

[Anonymous No.11854546]

He was going to leak proof of the ayys

>The Air Force has opened an investigation into Falzarano’s death but initial indications show he likely died of natural causes, officials said in a statement. Falzarano, 47, was not believed to have contracted the coronavirus, the officials said.
https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/air-force-space-wing-commander-dies-at-peterson-air-force-base-1.629647

[Anonymous No.11854549]

>>11854545
Actually it's just vibration messing up the satellite link, as far as I know.

[Anonymous No.11854560]

>>11854545
Why still no drone or just a boat on a lead is beyond me

[Anonymous No.11854561]

drinking on stream

[Anonymous No.11854564]

that was nice.

[Anonymous No.11854567]

>>11854549
Yep, the waves get disrupted because of the vibrations somehow. Last landing was better, so I thought they had a relay boat or a long cable, but I guess we were just lucky.

[Anonymous No.11854570]

dammit spacex I can't dance to this

[Anonymous No.11854571]

The army is a bunch of retard bumpkins

[Anonymous No.11854573]

>>11854567
just mount the antenna on the head of a chicken

[Anonymous No.11854574]

>>11854446
ok, more jessie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtMug6Ql46k

[Anonymous No.11854577]

Exclusive view from the barge

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>>11854573
That's stu...

Fucking hell!

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>>11854577
Dangerously nice!

[Anonymous No.11854585]

>>11854571
I dare you to say that to their faces. They will tell you you are correct.

[Anonymous No.11854597]

>>11854585
Only some of them. The rest of us have to tard wrangle and get all the work done.

[Anonymous No.11854598]

It's crazy, a few minutes age it was right over my house in Europe, now it's over the black sea and in like 10 minutes it's over like Iraq or Iran, I mean just to get that into perspective, fucking Lawrence of Arabia, that's a completely different world, in like 15 minutes...

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>>11854585
I'm in the Bundeswehr and I can absolutely confirm that. The Oxford talks of Simon Mann and Eric Prince, the PMC guys opened my eyes, it takes like a fraction of the personnel we need to do a gig twice as fast in the industry. Have you seen how much of our stuff is operational right now? Like none. It's like SLS vs Spacex&RL

[Anonymous No.11854616]

>>11854604
Just give me a few hundred squaremiles please.

[Anonymous No.11854617]

>this music

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>>11854610
kek. Well stereotypes aren't born from thin air, there's always a reason why they exist.

[Anonymous No.11854649]

>>11854617
Someone should really compile it all.

[Anonymous No.11854657]

>>11854380
Didn't listen, but it's from Test Shot Starfish.

[Anonymous No.11854660]

>>11854633
Honestly, I would have never expected how broken it is.
At this point I laugh it all off, like a long, drawnout joke. I don't even feel guilty towards the taxpayers anymore. At least we still have some of the cool old Cold War gear.

>>11854649
>>11854617
Honestly it got a little bit too little of that Alien mystique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12RW3NkiYg&list=PLTAcCeE2DCByBIN0RIev6mXmwtUXQ54UF&index=13
I like the more curious tracks.

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>>11854560
Support boat is miles away. Getting another boat just to see the landing live is retarded.

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>>11854660
I meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MOqQ9by4o&list=PLTAcCeE2DCByBIN0RIev6mXmwtUXQ54UF&index=17

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>>11854560
>>11854567

OCISLY had an upgraded video/transmission system installed not too long ago so we had better live views. I don't think they have upgraded JRTI.

[Anonymous No.11854674]

>>11854666
Well they really could mount a powered winch and have a small float as a sea anchor...
>>11854670
I didn't know that, thanks you for the insight!

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>>11854649
I haven't listened to it through yet, but there's a new Test Shot Starfish album called Music for Space Sleep. It's probably from that.

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>>11854670
Seems like the upgrades didn't do anything, the last good view was Starlink8 landing on JRTI

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>>11854617
It felt more appropriate than the usual Test Shot Starfish music after the dedication

[Anonymous No.11854752]

coming up on release

[Anonymous No.11854770]

>all that space dust
spoopy

[Anonymous No.11854772]

GPS released! and they caught both fairing halves!

[Anonymous No.11854776]

that's a wrap. next f9 launch is in a week or so; Starlink

[Anonymous No.11854777]

>>11854772
didn't they say they weren't catching the fairings today? just recovering after they splashed down

[Anonymous No.11854783]

>>11854772
They didn't. They mentioned they planned on just fishing them out of the water this mission.

[Anonymous No.11856327]

>>11854610
To be fair, Bundeswehr must be one of the most ill-managed armies in a developed country right now.
Completely fucked by incompetent middle management, terrible beaurocracy and politicians who couldn‘t give two shits about the Bundeswehr as an actual fighting force. But at least now our soldiers can ride the fucking trains for cheap :^)
What a fucking meme.

[Anonymous No.11856379]

>>11856327
>at least now our soldiers can ride the fucking trains for cheap :^)

I tried that:
>Get codes from CO
>go to the German Training website
>try to book a ticket, fill it all out, enter
ANON YOU CAN'T BOOK A TICKET UNLESS YOU'RE LOGGED IN LOL
>Try to create an account at DB, punch in credentials and enter (No feedback mind you)
>try to book ticket again (offcorse autofill doesn't work^^)
>Use my account credentials
ANON YOU CAN'T BOOK A TICKET UNLESS YOU'RE LOGGED IN LOL XDDD
>Hmmm.jpeg
>google the line
Nothing
>Google DB support mail
Nothing
>Try everything later like 2-3 times that day
Nothing

>>Fastforward a day

>Try again and look up the... Hotline (Please daddy, not the hotline! Oh yesss my child!)
>Dial it in
>Robot picks up
>3 minutes of robot talking about numbers and the uprising blah blah...
>Find number too department that sort of fits, punch it in
>chill with banging royalty free tunes they stream via CBR straight from Jupiter for almost 30 minutes
>Robot comes back on and tells me that shit's fucked and I should call again

>>Fastforward an hour
>Get in car, drive to nearest station
>Support booth's closed due to aids or covid, whatever
>Search for machine, it's blue and doesn't say DB but here I am
turns out it's a competing local railway gang
Repeat the "Hotline experience"
Skip to to 10+ min of elevator tunes from the surface of Jupiter (they now have a storm from what it sounds like)

>A HUMAN PICKS UP!
>Explain situation, have a short hysteric laugh
>Tells me everything should be A-OK and I should try again!
(At this point Anon typed in destinations, credentials and dates, like 20-35 times over the course of a week on 4 different devices, not even including the machine)
>Start drilling
>Oh anon, yeah it appears that our IT is tidying up the website and you can't make new accounts right now and I should ask the information at a station
"picrelated"

[Anonymous No.11856398]

>>11856379
>Tell her (We both are amazed by how calm I am) that IT may have considered to put out a message that shit is fucked right now
>Tell her she could forard that proposal to IT
>She "yeah yeah sure"-s at me and tells me that the biggest stations still have Information operating

>>Fastforward to next day
Drive to nearest biggest station
>find an actual DB machine
>book ticket.YESSS
>put in code
nothing
>put in other code
nothing
>Codes aren't the right lenght

>Look up information
>Only one there
>Approach counter
>Lady points me to pick-a-number-o-mat
>Pick a number
>Number comes up
>Approach counter (They have a screen made of transparent plastic foil for wrapping pallets there to counter the covid)
>Tell her my story
>She doesn't know about the Website breakdown
>Tells me the code only works online
>Flindge
>Se literally tells me to just go onna train and wait for the ticket guy to catch me without a ticket
>Do that
>>Fast forward 30 minutes in to onna train
>Ticket lad approaches me
>hiiii.png
>"Tickets please"
>Tell him my life story, show him da codez
>>Fastforward15 minutes
>Has no idea about any of it and is completely hopeless on how to proceed
>Tells me it's cool and I can just chill to my next connection
>Repeat for 3 ticketpeople and 3 connections and 500km
>last one wants me to buy a ticket and get the cash back from "the information"
>At this point I'm only paying a fraction for the price because I've traversed half of Germany without a ticket. Pay the price and never consider to get in touch with Information ever again.

[Anonymous No.11856741]

>>11856379
>>11856398
Nobody forced you into becoming a nazi larping bootlicker.

[Anonymous No.11857601]

>>11856741
Nobody forced you to become a gay retard and here you are.
Btw you couldn't stray further from nazi larping than joining the BW. Our theme is more like cold war stuff, but more deteriorated and broken, basically STALKER, but with less hell rocks and more Russians.

[Anonymous No.11858187]

>>11857601
hows the Ukrainian ratio

[Anonymous No.11858589]

>>11858187
Dunno man, I just know we have a lot of Russians.

[Anonymous No.11860449]

https://twitter.com/Booster_Buddies/status/1278608157900750848

Fairings look good