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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: SpaceX has a rare 2nd stage not-nomi    |
|    27 Jul 24 11:41:33    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Snidely used thar keyboard to writen:       > Thursday, the twice postponed Starlink Group 9-3 launch went up from       > Vandenberg at the beginning of the window (no jellyfish for SoCal on this       > one), and the booster (B1063 on its 19th flight) worked and was recovered.       >       > But the second stage could be seen in the downlink to be shedding more ice       > than usual from the insulated "bag" above the nozzle, and fell way short of       > 200 km (152 km than down to 139 km after "stage 2 in terminal guidance" was       > announced). SpaceX terminated the feed after "MVac shutdown" was called out,       > about 38 min into the youtube relay by Spaceflight Now.       >       > SpaceX's web site says "the second stage engine did not complete its second       > burn .... satellites were deployed into a lower than intended orbit. SpaceX       > has made contact with five of the satellites so far and is attmpting to have       > them raise orbit using their ion thrusters."       >       > /dps              Broken sense line. Return to flight successful on July 27, lift off at       1:45 EDT (Florida local time) from KSC, satellite deployment normal.              Two more Starlink launches this weekend, using the other two F9 launch       sites: CCSFS and Vandenberg.              /dps                     --       "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is       crucial, and yet not the answer."        Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,       Stanford.,2020              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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