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Update by the edhat staff
March 3, 2023
SpaceX has successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket with more Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday.
Watch the full launch below:
Update by SpaceX
March 2, 2023
SpaceX is targeting Friday, March 3 at 10:38 a.m. PT (18:38 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 51 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.”
Update by SpaceX
March 1, 2023
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Thursday, March 2 at 10:52 a.m. PT (18:52 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 51 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
By SpaceX
February 28, 2023
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, March 1 at 11:06 a.m. PT (19:20 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 51 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, ISI EROS C-3 and two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff.
It says [@ https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/%5D: “March 2
Launch time: 1852 GMT (1:52 p.m. EST; 10:52 a.m. PST)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California…
Delayed from Feb. 27 and Feb. 28.” . So Thursday?
Moved to tomorrow, Thursday Mar 2.
More like 2:42 pm or so.
Update now scheduled for: 3MAR2023 @ 10:38AM
Weird that they’ve not updated the “Schedule page” but on the home page there’s this:
“SpaceX delayed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from California until Friday at 10:38 a.m. PST (1:38 p.m. EST; 1838 GMT) due to poor weather conditions at the booster’s recovery area in the Pacific Ocean. The mission will loft 51 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit.”
At least this time we get to know why, as it’s not all that windy ATM…
amazing stuff for sure…
though every time I hear about more starlink satellites floating around (creating an amazing communication system), I wonder if we’re slowly moving Elon Musk towards global domination.
Since their commencement in 2019, Falcon 9 rocket liftoff after Falcon 9 rocket liftoff, 51 starlink satellites here, 51 starlink satellites there. Now SpaceX has more than 3,700 Starlink satellites in orbit, providing broadband internet access to subscribers around the globe. The good: Starlink will connect previously disconnected communities. With regard to Elon Musk’s bank account, more and newer smart phone and internet customers are paying his companies for that connectivity. However, there is a downside with so many satellites: their affect pn the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been up in space for 33 years and is losing altitude. Hubble is JUST BELOW the main Starlink shells and constantly peering through them. Satellite streaks are appearing in Hubble’s photographs at an ever increasing rate. Thus, SpaceX’s Starlink spacecraft are increasingly interfering with astronomical observations. The James Webb telescope is unaffected, as it is on a long distance trajectory from earth.
Not to mention the possibility of a Kessler Syndrome event.
Stray: At 33 years of age the answer is to retire Hubble which has done tremendous good work but with its now antiquated technology can be replaced by something so much better on all counts!
Are you still using your land line Bakelite push button telephone?
Yet: you did invest in it when you first got it and it did let you make and receive a lot of phone calls: so give up your smartphone !
There’s nothing antiquated about Hubble’s technology, and it’s still a unique and valuable resource, so throwing it away while it is producing valuable data is a bit stupid, even if Musk’s orbital junk contributions diminish that somewhat.
It looks like they’re still at it:
March 17 Falcon 9 • Starlink 2-8
Launch time: Approx. 1915 GMT (3:15 p.m. EDT; 12:15 p.m. PDT)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink internet satellites. This mission will deploy the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Delayed from March 16. [March 13]
…. so if you’re watching from the East Coast it takes off @ 3:15PM, good to know.