One off the satellites where apparently already dead and would not respond to commands when they got it mounted on the rocket. But they launched it anyway.
Some lawyer is kicking themselves for writing a shitty contract.
SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
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#12One off the satellites where apparently already dead and would not respond to commands when they got it mounted on the rocket. But they launched it anyway.
Probably didn’t anticipate the delta in load in the flight plan?
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#13How easy will star-link be to block, for example in Russia say or China?
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#15One off the satellites where apparently already dead and would not respond to commands when they got it mounted on the rocket. But they launched it anyway.
59/60 seems reasonable to go anyway. Launch windows are small and delays are hella expensive
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#16One off the satellites where apparently already dead and would not respond to commands when they got it mounted on the rocket. But they launched it anyway.
They are going for scale, where missing launch window is more expensive than just launching the rest of the payload.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1193687615528042496
And in this case, if dead, the satellite will be used as a science experiment
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#17The final cage match to settle dominance between Musk and Bezos is going to be so epic.
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#184th reuse. Wow didn't realise they were that deep in already. Thought reuse was still conceptual
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#19Are there photos of just the Starlink satellites? I know the impressiveness of the stack of them, but I can’t tell what I’m looking at without seeing one outside of the stack. It’s like showing a photo of a geologic specimen without a scale reference.
It's not a photo, but there's a render (originally from SpaceX's Starlink website): https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/satellite_...
The red arrows indicate the phased-array antennas.
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#204th reuse. Wow didn't realise they were that deep in already. Thought reuse was still conceptual
Yep! The first reuse of a booster was actually two and a half years ago; they've been gradually increasing the amount of reflights since.