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|    Snidely to Niklas Holsti    |
|    Re: Starlink launch today    |
|    06 Sep 20 16:07:39    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              On Thursday or thereabouts, Niklas Holsti asked ...       > On 2020-09-03 17:37, Jeff Findley wrote:       >> There was yet another Starlink launch today (another 60 satellites, I       >> believe). I watched the replay since I was stuck in a meeting earlier       >> this morning. The booster successfully landed on the autonomous drone       >> ship.       >       >       > I'm signed up for e-mail announcements from SpaceX of impending launches. I       > was interested to note that in the announcement for this launch, they said:       >       > "Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9's first       > stage on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, which will be       > stationed in the Atlantic Ocean."       >       > Not so long ago, the wording was "... first stage will ATTEMPT to land on       > ...". They are becoming confident :-|              I've noticed that the boosters, including the latest Starlink, are more       consistently centered in the circles on the barge. We didn't get the       final downlink from the booster, but the drone ship camera cut in just       in time.              The whole stream from Thursday was much shorter, at least by Thursday       night, beginning about 10 minutes before launch, and concluding       immediately after Starlink deploy, with the words "and so we won't show       the fairing catch attempts; check our social media for followups".              Since the ewe toob channel is the only social media I'm following       outside this group, any reports on fairing status?              /dps                     --       But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason       to 'be happy.'"        Viktor Frankl              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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