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On Friday, SpaceX launched 2 separate Falcon 9 missions with the first being the NASA SWOT
satellite.
[NASA Commentator: “One.
Engine ignition.
And lift off!
Lift off of SWOT, our first global survey of Earth’s surface water, to study how this
ever changing resource affects our climate.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1071, then landed successfully for the 6th time
on the landing pad at Landing Zone 4.
[NASA Commentator: “It’s about to land, how exciting!
Coming in for its landing burn there.
Again, the grid fins moving ever so slightly to make sure that it’s coming down exactly
how they want it to come down.
Yep, and you can see the pad coming into view.
There it is!
Wow, those sonic booms!
And then the sonic booms.
Trademark sonic booms.
Wow!
And good touchdown of the stage 1 booster.
Touchdown.
Perfect, oh!
Stage 1 landing is confirmed.
So glad to see that live video, again, sometimes we don’t get it; that was amazing to see.
Yes.
And feel, really.
See, and feel, and we get to use this booster again.
Yeah, yeah, again, 6th… this would…
this is the 6th flight of this booster.”]
The next launch to happen on Friday was with the O3b mPower 1 & 2 mission which also lifted
off on a Falcon 9 rocket.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Engines full power.
And lift off of SES mPower.
Go Falcon 9, go SES.”]
SpaceX didn’t show it, but the booster which launched this mission, B1067, then landed
successfully for the 8th time on the droneship A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
In addition to that, SpaceX launched yet another Falcon 9 rocket yesterday with the Starlink
4-37 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Engines full power.
And lift off of Starlink 4-37.
Go Falcon, go Starlink.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1058, then landed successfully for a record-breaking
15th time on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “As a reminder, Starlink is a satellite internet constellation designed
and manufactured by SpaceX to provide high speed…
Stage 2 terminal guidance…
high speed, low latency internet to people living in remote and rural locations around
the globe.
Landing burn com… coming up here in… just under 10 seconds.
Stage 1 landing burn.
And there you can see that engine has ignited, let’s watch as Falcon 9 touches down on
Just read The Instructions.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Stage 1 landing confirmed.
And there you can see that Falcon 9 has touched down for its 15th landing for this booster.
This marks our 58th landing…
this year.
Acquisition of signal, Finland.
And 158th overall landing of an orbital class rocket.”]
Musk posted this Tweet saying “Congrats to SpaceX Team on 3 perfect orbital launches
within 36 hours!”
Heading to Starbase, here’s a view of the Starfactory production building.
This possible test article was spotted in front of the Mid Bay.
The Ship 24 flaps were seen being tested.
SpaceX posted this incredible video on Twitter and said “Ship 24 completes a single-engine
static fire test at Starbase in Texas.”
Here’s another view of the Starship 24 static fire test.
A new test tank, Ship 26.1 was moved to the testing site.
The work on Booster 9 continued in the Mega Bay.
Booster 9 was also rolled out to the launch site for testing.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures, Thursday’s closure was utilised for testing
and Friday’s cancelled.
There are also possible closures for this coming week with tomorrow, Monday 19th, Tuesday
20th, Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd.
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.
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