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Early on Saturday morning, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 with the launch of the Hotbird
13F mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Engines full power.
And ignition.
Lift off of Falcon 9.
Go Hotbird, go Falcon.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1069, then landed successfully for the 3rd time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Second engine cutoff, and there on the left hand side of your screen
you can see, that the first stage has begun the landing burn.
Nominal parking orbit.
Heard good orbital insertion there for the second stage.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Stage 1 landing confirmed.
And there you have it.
That landing marks SpaceX’s 147th recovery of an orbital class rocket, including first
stage landings for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.”]
Taking a look at the upcoming launches, we can hopefully expect to see another Starlink
mission soon.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the launch of Starlink 4-36 is scheduled for Thursday
20th at 3:45pm UTC or 11:45am EDT.
SpaceX has secured another launch with their Falcon 9 for a Moon lander mission.
Jeff Foust posted a Tweet saying “Japanese lunar lander company ispace confirms it will
launch its first HAKUTO-R lander mission on a Falcon 9 NET Nov. 9-15.”
SpaceX posted a Tweet about Starlink for RVs.
They said “Starlink for RVs now has over 100,000 customers!
Access high-speed, low-latency internet on an as-needed basis anywhere Starlink provides
active coverage.”
Musk posted a Tweet about Starlink.
He said “Also, Starlink is still losing money!
It is insanely difficult for a LEO communications constellation to avoid bankruptcy – that
was the fate of every company that tried this before.
When asked what the goal of Starlink was at a space conference, I said ‘not go bankrupt’.”
In response to that, there were a couple of Tweets posted.
The first says “What's the threshold Starlink needs to hit to be profitable?
I imagine Starship and V2 will be the key for this?”
Then there was another asking “Starship needs to fly first before Starlink constellation
becomes profitable?”
Musk responded to this last Tweet and said “Falcon can probably get Starlink past breakeven,
but Starship is needed to fund Mars.”
Musk also responded to the first Tweet saying “Starship & next-gen Starlink satellites
are key, but much risk lies ahead before those are working at scale.”
As well as having launched Crew-5 recently, during the week, the Crew-4 mission crew returned
home in their Dragon.
The ISS posted this Tweet saying “Welcome home SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts after a 170-day
ISS research mission that began on April 27!
Splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean occurred at 4:55pm ET today.”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of work on the structure behind the Mega Bay
continuing.
I wanted to share this really cool photo posted on Twitter by RGV Aerial Photography with
a shot looking straight down the fully stacked Starship.
This is such an awesome picture.
They said “Bet you've never seen the full stack from this angle?”
Crews were seen working on this Ship aft skirt.
The Starship quick disconnect was seen extended and retracted as they test it.
The PEZ dispenser was installed into Ship 28’s payload section.
SpaceX posted this cool picture on Twitter of the fully stacked Starship.
They said “Starship on the pad at Starbase.”
At some point during the week, Ship 24 was detached from Booster 7 slightly.
Crews did some work and then it was lowered back down and mated again.
As we await full stack Starship testing, let’s take a look at the road and beach closures
on the Cameron County website.
Currently, for this coming week, there is a possible closure scheduled for tomorrow,
Monday 17th only.
Grid fins for Booster 9 were seen being installed inside the Mega Bay.
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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