Another day, another Starlink launch.
Starlink Group 6-46 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-03-25 21:00 UTC, or 2024-03-25 17:00 local time (EDT). Booster 1078-8 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.
Edit: Launch pushed to 2024-03-25 23:42 UTC, or 2024-03-25 19:42 local time (EDT)
Webcasts:
- Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPAa5ZwdnI
- Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIM6Yked8OY
- NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHvCS3oq6I
- The Launch Pad: https://youtube.com/watch?v=adaMcyQQaa8
- SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1772407372377731233
- The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRy0VcP_S8U
I saw the light train last night while leaving a store. It freaked me out for a bit before I googled what it was. Kinda cool looking.
Cool! Group 6-46 (this thread) hasn’t launched yet, but there are other groups which launched recently enough that they are still bunched together in a train.
Any idea which group you saw? There are some sites like findstarlink.com which list the most visible groups. Groups 6-42 and 7-16 are the most recent ones.
No, I’ve no idea. It was over indiana around 9:30 last night.
Droneship and fairing recovery ship left port on Saturday.
Starlink deploy confirmed: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1772426126612119882
NSF captured some RCS action from the fairings: https://twitter.com/AdamCuker/status/1772436388178174263
Photographer Adam Cuker captures the stage 2 deorbit burn (full video).
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
SECO and nominal orbit.
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1772320601413451803
Targeting Monday, March 25 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida → http://spacex.com/launches
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1772395655228539274
All systems are ready and weather is go with less than one hour until Falcon 9’s launch of @Starlink satellites from Florida
Liftoff!