SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
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Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#2incredible!
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#3TLDR:
* 4th landing for this first stage booster. Estimated first stage service life is ten launches prior to inspection, one hundred flights total
* Fairings were reused from a previous launch, unable to be recovered due to rough seas this launch
* 360-400 satellites required in the constellation to transition from "bent pipe" to intra-constellation data routing
* 1200 satellites provides global coverage
* Starlink satellites have a five year service life
* SpaceX board recognized in 2012 that satellite comms has a much higher margin than satellite launch services
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#4Are they recovering the fairing again?
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#5Are they recovering the fairing again?
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#6Are they recovering the fairing again?
Not this time, apparently the weather was too bad for the ships to go out.
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#7Are they recovering the fairing again?
They wanted to, but that was aborted apparently, as per https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1193853341475979266 via https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/du07rt/rspacex_star...
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#8Are they recovering the fairing again?
Per the reddit thread on the launch, the fairing recovery ships are all in port. It's not clear why.
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#9One 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.
Re: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
#10Are 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.