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A while ago. Got up at 1AM to watch a manned flight take off but it got aborted. Couple of days later, this unmanned one was taking off.

T minus 11.5 minutes......

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites at 11:36 p.m. EDT (0336 UTC) tonight from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The first of two planned Starlink missions tonight. Another Falcon 9 will launch from California at 12:01 a.m. PDT (3:01 a.m. EDT). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' in the Atlantic Ocean. The booster is making its 13th flight.

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Too cloudy to see it tonight but got a descent rumble!

This was the 13th flight for the Stage 1 booster, which made a successful landing on the drone ship.

So cool.......:)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html



While maybe being english over-analysis, the headline reads "Crashes INTO the moon", :confused:

Wouldn't it be "Crashes ONTO the moon?"


guess it depends on how deep the crater was after it augered in..... :(


sad to see any space program fail.

Well it IS made of cheese ...

H2 and O2 is where we'll probably end up after all this highly polluting and inefficient lithium goes out of fashion. That or e-petrol.

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I was happy to see Russia's latest rocket fail. Hopefully will help to deflate Putin's ego a bit.

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Next up is India trying a soft landing on the moon with a probe.

Space is hard. It is just astonishing when you look at what NASAA did in the 1960s with slide rules, primitive computers and a large budget. They had to invent the technology, build the infrastructure, and invent new manufacturing processes from scratch. When Kennedy set his goal too land men on the moon withing the decade, we had only made one sort suborbital flight. Just up and right back down and he said we should go to the moon!

Sorry, I haven’t mastered the YouTube embedded thing.

https://youtu.be/t0Ob6DaMM2k


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Under the video hit share then embed and copy the string and paste Makes a nice tidy size.


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Thanks Bob


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Wow - congrats to India and it's space program!

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Crank up your subwoofer! :)

Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire successfully lit all 33 Raptor engines, with all but two running for the full duration. Congratulations to the SpaceX team on this exciting milestone!

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1695158759717474379

Docking now completed while flying over Australia........

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NASA launched the Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy at a fraction of what it would have cost had SLS been available.

2nd attempt after last night was scrubbed.......

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About a half hour to go.......

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 12:05 a.m. EST (0505 UTC) tonight. The first-stage booster will land on the drone ship 'Just Read the Instructions' in the Atlantic Ocean. It will be SpaceX's 80th orbital launch of the year and the 270th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket to date.

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20 minutes.....

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watched it live, thanks for the link!