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Once again, we didn’t see the actual separation of the stack of Starlink sats.

They won't rename the Greek letter designations of the stars in Orion if Betelgeuse explodes. The rule that the stars of a constellation are lettered in order of brightness is not true for all constellations anyway. See Ursa Major, where the Greek letters were assigned in the order the stars appear in the Big Dipper.

Have we EVER seen video of the moment of the Starlink stack separating? It always seems to me that they cutaway to the orbit animation at that point.

This was much more satisfying than the Orion abort test that just dropped the capsule into the drink.

Nicely done, SpaceX.

Have they said if they are going to send a destruct command to the booster, before or after abort? Are they going to command thrust termination before or after the abort? Or have they not shared a detailed flight plan?

Ah, yes. I didn't check the forecast. Three to five inches of snow up in the Jemez. I think I'm screwed.

The ones that were showing up naked eye were fairly evenly spaced, yes. There were dimmer satellites in the gaps visible in the binoculars...but not as well as last night. I don't know if the haze was to blame or if the satellites are in different orientations in some systematic way. Wednesday's pass is low, so I won't bother with it. The pass on Thursday is high overhead...but the time is an hour earlier, so I don't know how well they'll show up in the twilight.

Tonight's pass must have have had a better sun angle for illuminating the satellites, since I saw many more of them naked eye (with magnitude between 2.5 and 2.0). I think this is because they were passing between me and the sun, so I got forward bounced reflection, as opposed to yesterday when it was more side or back bounce). Spotted the first on at 6:42 PM, leading the others by quite a bit (and it was a bright one). the main string showed up at 6:44 PM, and it had maybe a couple dozen naked eye brightness satellites spaced out in a very pretty string (pretty if you are in the whole "mankind conquering the skies" camp, and less so if you are in the "mankind is destroying the natural beauty of the sky" camp). I did not see as many dim satellites as last night (using my binoculars)... but there were hazy cloud bands that were messing with me. I didn't make a good count tonight, since I was more interested in the naked eye view of the long string of lights through Pegasus. They were all gone into Earth's shadow by 6:52 PM. (The app Voice Clock on the iPhone is great...it calls out the time for me every minute so I don't have to look away from the show.)

Heavens Above shows the Tuesday pass at 6:40 PM, MST. Rising up past the west side of Venus, past the west of the Great Square, and disappearing into Cepheus.

I watched the third batch of Starlink satellites pass over tonight at approximately 6:30 PM. This was the group launched a week ago, but this was the first night with a decent visible pass from New Mexico. I used the prediction from the Heavens Above website, and it was pretty accurate, with the satellites going from south-southwest toward the east, passing below Cetus and heading toward Orion. The pass tomorrow should be a bit higher up and easier to see. The ones today got as high as 42 degrees before disappearing into the Earth's shadow west of Orion. Using binoculars, I was able to count 38 of the satellites. The first one was spotted around 6:26 PM, and the last one was spotted around 6:37 PM. My wife was able to see four of then naked eye. The brightest ones were maybe 2.0 to 2.5 magnitude.

Nope. Once again we didn't see the actual release...only before and shortly after release. I am sad.

Second burn of stage 2 was fine. Waiting for deployment of the satellites. I wonder if we'll get to see video of the actual deployment (the previous two times I didn't see the actual release...only shortly after)

Landing successful! Good video from ship through landing. Good orbital insertion. Coasting now.

Rocket launch fun time! And we have liftoff! Interesting exhaust hitting booster effects. Entry burn onboard video. Hot glowing entry video.

Jamestown needs a nuclear reactor... ...but I would send Uranium for that.

I have Learned a Thing.

The first stage of the Sea Dragon was planned to use RP-1 and LOX. The upper stage was to use Hydrogen and LOX.

That one floats quite a bit lower in the water than a Sea Dragon should.

Around pi kilometers.

Nice job, SpaceX.

Arrays deploying.

Good orbit.

Booster on ship!

Boostback? So the ship is close to KSC? That bodes well for landing video. Entry burn... Landing burn... lost onboard video