Time for another Starlink mission. This one’s an evening launch from Vandenburg. It will be the 19th flight of booster B1061.
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-02-23 04:11 |
|---|---|
| Scheduled for (local) | 2024-02-22 20:11 (PST) |
| Mission | Starlink Group 7-15 |
| Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA. |
| Vehicle | Falcon 9 |
| Booster | B1061 19th Flight |
| Landing | ADSD Of Course I Still Love You at T+00:08:23 |
| Inclination | 53° Why? |
| Payload | 22 x Starlink V2 Mini deployed at T+01:02:17 |
| Customer | SpaceX |
| Mission success criteria | Successful launch and delivery of payload to low earth orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWd7EnE8MU |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikloLxNHxvU |
| SpaceX | https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-7-15 |
| SpaceFlight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA |
| The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE |
Interesting note: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760882381148623202#m
One of the nine Merlin engines powering tonight’s first stage is our flight leader, powering its 22nd mission to Earth orbit
I didn’t know that the engine flight leader numbers were higher than the booster flight leaders. I wonder how this occurred?
I assumed that they swapped out engines only when they needed refurbishment, and that the engines would always have fewer flights than the boosters. I guess some older engines have been reinstalled in younger boosters?
OCISLY towed by Debra C is making 5.5 knots and currently about 60km (30 nautical miles) off the Mexican coast: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=368351350 (MARMAC 304 is the original registered name of OCISLY)
Support ship Go Beyond is about 4 hours out of Long Beach on its way to “LZ :)” https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9622655
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.
Liftoff!
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
M-vac shutdown.
Payload deploy https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760897350535651504#m.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LZ Landing Zone MECO Main Engine Cut-Off ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast OCISLY Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic landing bargeshipJargon Definition Starlink SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 18 acronyms.
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Thanks for posting this thread! It looks great!
Spaceflight Now has a livestream link too now, which you could add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA
You might want to adjust the dateful link, as it seems to be pointing to 23:11 on Thursday, rather than 04:11 on Friday.
Thanks. The date link was a bit wrong but seems to give the correct result: https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=2011&d=2024-02-23T04:11
I didn’t notice the t=2011 argument and just appended T04:11 to the d argument. Seems to work ok for me.
Seems to work ok for me.
Huh, that’s odd. This is what I see:
Also, if you could add the Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links to the table in the main post, that would be great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE
Thanks again for helping out with this thread!
Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links added. I’ve also fixed the dateful link. I think it might have been the & that was also messed up and may be resolved differently by different browser - anyway I hope it is fixed now.
https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m
Starting propellant load for tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of 22 @Starlink satellites from California. Rocket and weather are currently go for launch
Feb 23, 2024 · 3:37 AM UTC