Launch Thread: SpaceX Falcon 9 - SAOCOM 1B & Tyvak-0172 + PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-1

[Anonymous No.12067904]

SCRUBS ALL AROUND edition

Livestream: https://youtu.be/P-gLOsDjE3E
Launch: Sunday August 30 7:18 PM EDT / 23:18 UTC
Probability of violating weather constraints: 60% (https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20SAOCOM-1B%20L-0%20Forecast%2030%20Aug%20Launch.pdf?ver=xTLjpYw5hc4fhK1dRN8mag%3d%3d))
Backup launch: Monday August 31 7:19 PM EDT / 23:19 UTC
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with first stage B1059.4 (prior launches: CRS-19, CRS-20, Starlink-L9)
Launch pad: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA
Fairings: New?
Fairing recovery: Probable
First stage landing: At CCAFS Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Payload: SAOCOM 1B & Tyvak-0172 + PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-1
Payload mass & destination orbit: ~3,000kg; SSO, 620 km @ 97.89°
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/saocom-1.htm
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/gnomes-1.htm
>https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/08/spacex-polar-cape-50-years/

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 59th landed first stage, 40th re-flight of a first stage, and 92nd Falcon 9 launch. It is the 14th SpaceX orbital launch of 2020.
This mission marks SpaceX’s first launch to a polar orbit from the East Coast, and the first polar launch from Florida in decades.

[Anonymous No.12067914]

>4:20 PM

you just know

[Anonymous No.12067918]

>>12067904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMaOZJu3S64

[Anonymous No.12067920]

Cosmosapiens Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSp_zQ6z_Sk

[Anonymous No.12067921]

I want to habeeb, but that fucking weather. Give me a dogleg before I head to bed, Elon.

[Anonymous No.12067926]

here for the triple scrub

[Anonymous No.12067927]

scrub incoming

[Anonymous No.12067928]

Will be lovely to see a LZ-1 landing!

[Anonymous No.12067933]

SPACEX STREAM IS LIVE

[Anonymous No.12067937]

>>12067904
patch kino

[Anonymous No.12067940]

OMEGALUL

[Anonymous No.12067942]

who dis

[Anonymous No.12067943]

any Argentinian anons in the house?

[Anonymous No.12067945]

tfw i kinda hope it gets delayed so we get a kino af night launch

[Anonymous No.12067948]

LETS GO

[Anonymous No.12067949]

>>12067945
delayed launch time is the same

[Anonymous No.12067950]

>>12067904
Please launch, I just want something to go right today

[Anonymous No.12067951]

>>12067904
Reminder to set your video speed to 2x to make sure you're actually live

[Anonymous No.12067954]

looking forward to ufo reports from miami

[Anonymous No.12067956]

Is SpaceX giving chance to all of their employees on livecasting?

[Anonymous No.12067957]

>>12067954
& car alarms going off

[Anonymous No.12067959]

>>12067904
Lets go!

[Anonymous No.12067961]

>no catch

[Anonymous No.12067962]

>Cuba intercepts

[Anonymous No.12067964]

>erector

[Anonymous No.12067965]

>'on top of the rocket is the satellite fairing'

you'd think after a while they'd expect their viewers to know this? or are there normies watching these small launches anymore

[Anonymous No.12067968]

>>12067904
>4th launch of this booster
It's insane how normal booster reuse has become in such a short time.

[Anonymous No.12067969]

cape polar orbits once killed a cow http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/herd-shot-around-the-world-the-last-east-coast-polar-launch/article/567614

[Anonymous No.12067970]

>>12067961
>New secret upgrade test that flies the fairing back to KSC

[Anonymous No.12067972]

>>12067956
jessie got canned, so they're looking for someone who can be as charismatic

[Anonymous No.12067977]

>>12067969
Didn't skylab also kill some cattle in Australia or something

[Anonymous No.12067979]

Weather is still unknown until ~1min

[Anonymous No.12067980]

>>12067961
Does it really suffer any damage from splashing down? Isn't it just a big panel?

[Anonymous No.12067984]

>>12067965
Every launch webcast has to be accessible to normies, it's part of the reason Spacex is as popular as it is. They also stream the mission control audio so you can mute the webcast and listen to the good stuff.

[Anonymous No.12067987]

that's one big sat.

[Anonymous No.12067988]

>>12067943
VAI TOMAR NO CU ARGENTINA
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AQUI E BRASIL PORRA

[Anonymous No.12067990]

>>12067987
For you

[Anonymous No.12067993]

>>12067972
No she didn't. She still works at SpaceX.

[Anonymous No.12067995]

>>12067980
Salt water is known to be corrosive.

[Anonymous No.12067997]

EE.UU? what?

[Anonymous No.12067998]

>>12067980
It does have electronics and components that don't like a salt water bath

[Anonymous No.12068003]

WE'RE GO BABY

[Anonymous No.12068005]

GO GO GO

[Anonymous No.12068007]

Weather is go.

[Anonymous No.12068009]

>>12067993
then why aren't we listening to her soothing cello of a voice rn?

[Anonymous No.12068012]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.12068014]

pretty

[Anonymous No.12068016]

t-minute 2 min

[Anonymous No.12068017]

>>12068009
SpaceX regularly rotates the launch hosts

[Anonymous No.12068018]

>>12067995
I thought it was carbon fiber

[Anonymous No.12068021]

>>12067997
Spanish abbreviation of 'Estados Unidos' (United States)

[Anonymous No.12068022]

WE GAAN

[Anonymous No.12068024]

what was noise?

[Anonymous No.12068025]

>>12068024
we get it, he vapes

[Anonymous No.12068027]

[Anonymous No.12068028]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.12068031]

LAUNCH

[Anonymous No.12068033]

Have fun with the space junk, Argies! HAHAHAHA!

[Anonymous No.12068034]

can't wait for the S1 views coming back down

[Anonymous No.12068036]

t+00:00:50

[Anonymous No.12068037]

fuck clouds

[Anonymous No.12068038]

beautiful

[Anonymous No.12068042]

WE FAST NOW

[Anonymous No.12068044]

s1 landing occurs at 07:49
last deploy, 01:02:19

[Anonymous No.12068046]

think I saw the dogleg there, very fast reorientation

[Anonymous No.12068050]

flippy

[Anonymous No.12068051]

holy shit that stage 1 view

[Anonymous No.12068055]

>>12068046
dogleg is gradual, look at mission control stream

[Anonymous No.12068057]

nice zoom

[Anonymous No.12068059]

wtf was that spinning thing

[Anonymous No.12068060]

Bird spotted flying away from stage 1

[Anonymous No.12068061]

>that spinny bit of ice

[Anonymous No.12068066]

>>12068059
Bird.

[Anonymous No.12068068]

>>12068055
link?

[Anonymous No.12068075]

>stage 1 descending towards plume from launch
neat

>>12068068
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mED5Dt0GhU

[Anonymous No.12068076]

The glide down towards landing looks so cool

[Anonymous No.12068079]

The clouds make the travel that much more exciting

[Anonymous No.12068081]

THOSE VAPOR TRAILS

[Anonymous No.12068082]

TIME TO FAP

[Anonymous No.12068083]

LANDED!

[Anonymous No.12068084]

>the cape suddenly coming into view through the clouds
>all that condensation
>stage 2 over cuba right now
based

[Anonymous No.12068086]

FUCKING AMAZING

[Anonymous No.12068089]

And just like that

[Anonymous No.12068090]

That landing sequence was absolutely phenomenal.

Need webms now

[Anonymous No.12068091]

FUUUUUUUUUUU, that looked so brown pants time going through the clouds.

[Anonymous No.12068093]

Someone please make a webm of those fins.

[Anonymous No.12068094]

Now we dance

[Anonymous No.12068095]

>>12068081
>>12068079
>>12068076
>>12068084
absolutely kino. Heinlein would be proud!

[Anonymous No.12068097]

holy fuck that landing was amazing

[Anonymous No.12068098]

pretty long second stage burn

[Anonymous No.12068099]

they start rolling in

[Anonymous No.12068100]

[Anonymous No.12068102]

THE AIR RUSHING THROUGH THE GRID FINS HHHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.12068105]

>>12068100
kino

[Anonymous No.12068107]

WE NEED THE WEBMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.12068108]

man that S2 is BOOKING it for SSO launches

[Anonymous No.12068109]

>>12068098
It's a polar orbit.

[Anonymous No.12068110]

Well looks like no WW3 with Cuba today

[Anonymous No.12068111]

Baking webms now

[Anonymous No.12068118]

Music in the stream sounds like something out of command and conquer

[Anonymous No.12068119]

>That S2 gas release
>How everyone feels after that lending

[Anonymous No.12068123]

kino

[Anonymous No.12068126]

>Nooo you can't just have S2 camera angles of the Earth
>Get NOAA on the line, shut them down now

[Anonymous No.12068127]

>>12068100
>look at those subtle grid fin actuations
>the tasteful cloud thickness
>oh my god, its even got vapor trails

[Anonymous No.12068129]

>>12068100

[Anonymous No.12068130]

>Hey Elon how do we solve the problem of our first stages coming down dirty?
>Fly them through a few clouds to rinse them up

[Anonymous No.12068135]

God its so sexy

[Anonymous No.12068139]

ground vids of landing coming in
https://twitter.com/WallOfLeno91/status/1300215096468279297

[Anonymous No.12068141]

>>12068100
That was like sex visualized

[Anonymous No.12068143]

>>12068135
>coming down right through its own launch vapor trail
ooh la la

[Anonymous No.12068144]

>>12068139
Yeah that's gonna cause a bunch of UFO calls

[Anonymous No.12068145]

>>12068135
Best landing yet.

[Anonymous No.12068149]

>>12068135
Now do one highly detailed passing through the clouds.

[Anonymous No.12068150]

some literally who with 2.2m followers is about to feel the wrath of spacex fans explaining all of this stuff to her

[Anonymous No.12068156]

>>12068150
How the fuck do you live in Florida and not know about NASA

[Anonymous No.12068157]

>>12068145
hey, nothing beats the continual shot of NROL76

[Anonymous No.12068158]

>>12068150
Always enjoy seeing blue checkmarks being clueless

[Anonymous No.12068161]

>>12068150
>35 replies in 3 minutes
too late

[Anonymous No.12068167]

>>12068150
How do these absolute retards live so close and remain so fucking clueless?

[Anonymous No.12068168]

I love grid fins! I want to marry grid fins!

[Anonymous No.12068171]

My face is sore from smiling

[Anonymous No.12068174]

>Install Neuralink to feel how the rocket flows through the clouds

[Anonymous No.12068177]

well assuming the smolsats deploy, that's a successful wrap of a launch! Hopefully the fairing halfs are not too salty.

next F9 is Tuesday, with the starlink batch's re-try

[Anonymous No.12068178]

>>12068156
this is SpaceX, not NASA

[Anonymous No.12068179]

>>12068168

[Anonymous No.12068182]

>>12068150
post that landing video back to him

[Anonymous No.12068186]

dududududududududu

[Anonymous No.12068187]

haha gridfins go woosh

https://streamable.com/j4gzx9

[Anonymous No.12068188]

the big Buzz himself

[Anonymous No.12068190]

>>12068177
We still have RocketLab launching tonight

[Anonymous No.12068193]

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[Anonymous No.12068197]

>>12068100
why does it feel like it would looks like it feels like it would feel so good?

[Anonymous No.12068202]

>>12068197
yeah

[Anonymous No.12068204]

Absolutely text book

[Anonymous No.12068206]

now for electron

[Anonymous No.12068208]

clouds must have reverberated the sound. people saying this one was loud AF.
any Florida anons want to chime in?

[Anonymous No.12068211]

Congrats NASA, beautiful launch!

[Anonymous No.12068215]

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1300214478248833028
another landing video

[Anonymous No.12068217]

>>12068211
:think;

[Anonymous No.12068218]

>>12068168
imagine being the gridfin

imagine feeling the moist column of air rushing through your holes at transsonic speeds

hahaha

[Anonymous No.12068219]

3 hours to the next launch stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPIhI5mRDRI

[Anonymous No.12068225]

>>12068211
anon, this was an Arianespace launch

[Anonymous No.12068224]

>>12068218
sauce?

[Anonymous No.12068229]

I find it strangely mind bending the second stage can burn for so long, since its much smaller than the first stage, but can burn for over twice as long.

[Anonymous No.12068234]

>>12068229
one engine vs nine engines

[Anonymous No.12068236]

>>12068225
buddy they're launching from florida, it's obviously ULA. Get your shit together before you post again fag

[Anonymous No.12068237]

>>12068229
1 engine vs 9 and it's not necessarily throttled up at max since it's out of the worst of our gravity well.

[Anonymous No.12068238]

Stream music fucking slaps rn

[Anonymous No.12068239]

[Anonymous No.12068240]

Another great success for Boeing.

[Anonymous No.12068241]

Another wonderful ULA flight.

[Anonymous No.12068243]

>>12068238
bzzzzzzzbbbzbzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Anonymous No.12068244]

I have been laughing for 20 minutes straight. HOW will ULA faggots ever recover from this???

[Anonymous No.12068248]

>>12068239
>"Look how hard I can thrust!"

[Anonymous No.12068250]

damn spacex chose the best tunes for today's launch

[Anonymous No.12068252]

>>12068250
There's a site called SpaceXfm that streams all their music

[Anonymous No.12068260]

Yup. ULA does it again.

[Anonymous No.12068269]

NASA pulls it off again

[Anonymous No.12068283]

>>12068240
>>12068241
>>12068260
>>12068269
>>12068211
Is this some sort of new form of bait or cope?

[Anonymous No.12068288]

>>12068283
What do you think?

[Anonymous No.12068290]

>>12068283
>>12068285

[Anonymous No.12068298]

>>12068283

[Anonymous No.12068299]

>>12068288
probably something between cope and trolling

[Anonymous No.12068302]

>>12068299
Bingo

[Anonymous No.12068304]

>>12068299
What do you mean? This is NASA's new launch vehicle whose development was contracted to ULA.

[Anonymous No.12068306]

>passing over Antarctica
>tfw no cameras on to show the great sea of snow and ice below

[Anonymous No.12068307]

>>12068283
Crippling Depression.

[Anonymous No.12068310]

>>12068283
looks like classic mid-'90s era trolling
so retro

[Anonymous No.12068313]

>>12068304
False. We know this was not ULAs mission is because it launched.

[Anonymous No.12068314]

>>12068306
Where are the black pyramids? Where are the unknowable horrors beyond time?

[Anonymous No.12068328]

>>12068314
???????????????????????

/??????????????????????

?

[Anonymous No.12068335]

>>12068252
Just use Spotify wtf

[Anonymous No.12068339]

Almost there

[Anonymous No.12068346]

Rideshares deploying

[Anonymous No.12068351]

Imagine

[Anonymous No.12068353]

[Anonymous No.12068354]

>That stream cut that only lasted a few seconds
Was that intentional?

[Anonymous No.12068355]

>feed cuts out as the last sat deploys
Fucking hell.

[Anonymous No.12068356]

>>12068313
Un-Launch-Able BTFO

[Anonymous No.12068363]

>>12068354
that one was absolutely intentional, feed didn't cut during the deployment on the other side nor at any other point

[Anonymous No.12068366]

Welp I must say that was a successful Boeing mission.

[Anonymous No.12068416]

[Anonymous No.12068440]

[Anonymous No.12068443]

>>12068440
>>12068416
>>12068353
They've made the impossible into a textbook example.

[Anonymous No.12068522]

>>12068443
Spacex has done more in a decade than governments have done in the last 30 years

[Anonymous No.12068888]

>>12068018
Carbon fiber and aluminum honey-comb composite.