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Launch coverage live. T-4 minutes Weather looks clear and nice in Vandenberg. Liftoff. Looking fine. MECO. Stage 2 good. Fairing sep. 4th flight for both fairing halves. Interesting tidbits (ice, I assume) drifting off of booster.
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Landed. Nice video.
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Also, with a reusable spacecraft, I would expect that they don't want to spend more time than needed burning the retro thrusters, since that decreases their operational lifetime.
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Did SpaceX explain why they painted parts of the Starship black? Not that I'm complaining, since it will make it much easier to paint a simple model rocket version of it (as opposed to having to paint the ragged edge pattern of the tiles).
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Ship 24 needs a little cubesat that it can very slowly spit out before pirouetting so that the cubesat can quickly photograph tile condition before re-entry.
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How many strakes does that Heavy have? and what the heck is in the lower right? It looks like giant-sized planks of wood, but that can't be right.
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Video coverage of landing was crappy.
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Falcon startup. Liftoff. Lots of clouds west of the cape, but clear out over the ocean. Stage 2 is good. Fairing jettison, Booster entry burn start… Entry burn shutdown. SECO. Booster landed successfully.
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Nilesat launch coverage is live. T-8 minutes. I see that they do indeed wet down the deck of the drone ship.
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If they want to eventually be launching multiple starships every day, they are going to have to get over that limitation at some point. Might as well do it now.
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Nice view of the booster's shadow on the ocean as it was dropping down to the recovery ship.
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The lighting on the Starlink launch first stage was interesting as it popped up into sunlight.
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It was an interesting move... but I don't think the booster can hover... so I suspect that the deck of the drone ship may have been moving downward just then.
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Stream scheduled to start....... no stream.
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Ocean looks weird Nice landing.
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Have they decided against moving the front flaps farther up onto the top of the Starship? I seem to recall mention of moving them to positions 120 degrees apart instead of 180 degrees apart.
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Huzzah for the landing!
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The landing exhaust made a nice dry spot in the water layer that they apparently spread on the landing pad. I don't recall that they did this early on.
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Landed!
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Weather looks nice. 5 minutes to launch. Such a clean rocket. Liftoff Onboard video... nice. Normally a fog-covered mess.
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I just keep repeating Tater. I should just shut up. But those were REALLY nice tracking shots. Pretty landing at LZ1. 104th recovery. This booster was a reconfigured Falcon Heavy booster... interesting.
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Nice camera tracking
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Liftoff!
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Weatherhead is good. No ships piloted by idiots present.
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Music on the SpaceX launch channel Launch in 10 minutes