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  On 5/8/2019 at 4:30 PM, RealKerbal3x said:

Uggggggh...Starlink is going up at 3:30 AM for me. I'm not particularly motivated to get up at three so I'll have to watch the replay when I'm actually awake.

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May 15/16Falcon 9 • Starlink 1
Launch time: 0230-0400 GMT on 16th (10:30 p.m.-12:00 a.m. on 15th/16th)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
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Amusingly, I was just toying with Ven’s rendition of those legs while picking the mods for the 1.7 install.

  On 5/7/2019 at 5:30 PM, zolotiyeruki said:

Don't get too excited--this is just speculation on my part, and I have no supporting evidence for it.  It just sorta makes sense in my mind.  And in KSP. :P

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A counterexample would be Spiral, which used the wing actuators for reentry attitude control.

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  On 5/7/2019 at 8:55 PM, tater said:

I'd imagine it's volume limited.

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If not, they'd almost certainly be using Falcon Heavy.  I wonder just how much pressure the satellite design teams had to make a compact satellite (low mass wasn't the issue you'd normally think).

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It's just a shifty way of doing things by the channel. They re-play past launches without removing [LIVE] part, or disabling the then-live chat. It's confusing as heck and rather... clickbaity. Simplest way to tell what you're watching is to check the date of upload.

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