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Kicking off today’s video, we have another Falcon 9 launch as SpaceX launched the OneWeb 16 mission
on Monday. [SpaceX Commentator: “One. Engines full power. And lift off of Falcon 9. Go Falcon,
go OneWeb 2.”] The booster which launched this mission, B1076, then landed successfully for
the 2nd time on the landing pad at Landing Zone 1. [SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 1 FTS is
safed. Plus something 20 second burn. As you can see the engines have shut down. That concludes
the entry burn for the first stage vehicle. Both vehicles continue to follow nominal trajectories.
Now we’re just about 30 seconds away from the landing burn beginning on the first stage vehicle.
It is just the E9 engine that will ignite for landing.
And the M1D engines have about an 190,000 pounds of thrust, so one engine re-igniting
is just enough to help slow the vehicle down in time to touchdown for landing.
Stage 2 FTS is safed. Stage 1 landing burn.
There you can see the landing burn has begun on Falcon 9,
let’s watch as the first stage touches down on Landing Zone 1.
Landing leg deploy. Stage 1 landing confirmed.
Wow, an awesome view of our land landing. As you just saw, Falcon 9 has touched down on Landing
Zone 1. That marks SpaceX’s 162nd recovery of an orbital class rocket.”] We were also expecting
to see the Starlink 2-4 mission launch earlier today but SpaceX posted this Tweet. They said
“Standing down from today's launch of Starlink to take a closer look at data from second stage;
teams are setting up for next launch opportunity, which is tomorrow, January 11 at 7:48 p.m. PT.”
Then earlier today, SpaceX posted another Tweet saying “Now targeting Saturday, January 14 at
7:06 p.m. PT for launch of Starlink to allow additional time for pre-launch checkouts.”
So the launch of Starlink 2-4 is now scheduled for a few days from now. The mission is expected
to lift off on Sunday 15th at 3:06am UTC or Saturday 14th at 10:06pm EST. As a reminder,
we could hopefully see a Falcon Heavy launch very soon with the launch pushed back slightly. The
Falcon Heavy USSF-67 launch is currently scheduled for Saturday 14th at 10:51pm UTC or 5:51pm EST.
SpaceX posted a Tweet confirming the launch date of the Falcon Heavy mission. They said “Full
duration static fire of Falcon Heavy complete; targeting no earlier than Saturday, January 14 for
launch of the USSF-67 mission from Florida.” The latest Cargo Dragon that went to the ISS returned
back to Earth. The ISS posted this Tweet saying “The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocked from the
station at 5:05pm ET today and will return to Earth on Wednesday loaded with several tons of
scientific cargo for analysis.” Earlier today, SpaceX confirmed successful splashdown of the
Cargo Dragon capsule to complete the CRS-26 mission. airBaltic posted a Tweet related to
Starlink and their fleet of planes. They said “We have selected SpaceX’s Starlink to bring internet
connectivity to our Airbus A220-300 fleet. All of our passengers will have access to complimentary,
high-speed satellite internet on every airBaltic flight.” With the situation on the ISS with the
stranded cosmonauts and astronaut, there was an article posted with unofficial information about
the plan to return them. The next Soyuz mission which will be MS-23 will have only one cosmonaut
instead of the 3 it would’ve had. The 2 cosmonauts will stay on the station through the duration of
the MS-23 mission and return on that capsule. Then, the next Crew Dragon mission which will
be Crew-6, will have 3 passengers instead of the planned 4 and they will fly an additional pressure
suit. The stranded astronaut will then stay on the ISS for the duration of the Crew-6 mission before
returning home with the rest of the Crew-6 crew. There was an article posted about the National
Science Foundation and SpaceX working together to mitigate the effects of Starlink on ground
based astronomy. It says “SpaceX worked with the U.S. National Science Foundation and its radio
astronomy observatories to mitigate potential interference from SpaceX satellite transmissions,
focusing on the 10.6 – 10.7 GHz radio astronomy band. NSF and SpaceX continue to explore methods
to further protect ground-based astronomy, and a new coordination agreement was signed in 2022
with the following provisions, which fulfilled conditions of their Generation 2 FCC license.”
Heading to Boca Chica, equipment was seen being removed from the Orbital Launch Mount.
This structure was spotted in the production yard. Near to Starbase is a place called Massey’s range
owned by SpaceX. RGV Aerial Photography posted a Tweet saying “Masseys raptor test stand is
possible based on the caisson drilling rig being assembled.” Musk responded with “Massey’s gun
range is being turned into a rocket test facility. Perfect match.” At some point,
SpaceX rolled Booster 7 to the launch site for hopefully the final time. Booster 7 was then
lifted and placed on the Orbital Launch Mount. Ship 24 was later moved inside the chopsticks.
Finally, Starship 24 was lifted and stacked with Booster 7 once again. SpaceX posted this
really cool drone footage of Starship 24 being stacked on Booster 7 again.
With Ship 24 stacked on Booster 7, SpaceX posted this cool Tweet. They said “SpaceX had
four rockets on four pads and two Dragons on orbit today—as CRS-26 Dragon departed the space station
with Crew-5 Dragon still attached to the orbiting lab, Falcon Heavy rolled out of the hangar,
two Falcon 9’s readied for launch, and Ship 24 was stacked onto Booster 7.” Finally let’s
take a look at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website. Originally,
SpaceX did have a possible closure for today but that closure was cancelled.
So currently there are a couple more possible closures for this week with tomorrow, Thursday
12th and also Friday 13th. As always, I have to say thanks to Nic Ansuini for being out there
filming the Starbase content. Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on
their videos, livestreams and other space content. That’s it for this episode of TheSpaceXShow,
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