SpaceX (general discussion)

martinbayer said:
Impossible is such a *very* harsh mistress term to use - if you could get a bored multibillionaire that's not already distracted by any number of other quixotic fool's errands interested in such a glittery thing, they just *might* pull it off as a pure one night launch record stunt. The real point is whether it would make any more sense than any other alternative ETO solution(s), which it *most* likely wouldn't.
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forgot "with significant payload"
 
Italian officials have been negotiating on a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) deal aimed at supplying Italy with a full range of top-level encryption for telephone and Internet services used by the government, the people said.

The plan also includes communications services for the Italian military in the Mediterranean area as well as the rollout of so-called direct-to-cell satellite services in Italy for use in emergencies like terror attacks or natural disasters, they said.
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Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Services Deal

(Bloomberg) -- Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe, people with knowledge of the matter said Sunday. Most Read from BloombergIs This Weird Dome the Future of Watching...
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My thoughts too Deino, when will we see an actual landing on land? Come on SpaceX and do the decent thing, I am patiently waiting for it to happen.
 
There’s test cargo this time. I was wondering when they would begin actually deploying stuff. If it’s anything like the F9 reusability testing, they will use a lot of this years test flights to deploy their own payloads as well.
 
Archibald said:
Seems the plan (according to Berger) is to ditch SLS and transfer Orion either to Vulcan or New Glenn. Why not Falcon Heavy ?
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Politics, all eggs in a single basket. Vulcan was supposed to be man rated for Starliner... Standing up BO as an alternative/competition to SpaceX. Sadly, most likely the Senate Launch System will survive long enough to transport humans
 
Josh_TN said:
There’s test cargo this time. I was wondering when they would begin actually deploying stuff. If it’s anything like the F9 reusability testing, they will use a lot of this years test flights to deploy their own payloads as well.
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ISTR reading somewhere 3 big, SS/SH only sized Starlink(V2?) mass simulators from the Pez dispenser. Who has pallets of bananas on their Bingo card?
 
mkellytx said:
Politics, all eggs in a single basket. Vulcan was supposed to be man rated for Starliner... Standing up BO as an alternative/competition to SpaceX. Sadly, most likely the Senate Launch System will survive long enough to transport humans
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SLS is definitely a wasteful throwback, but it works more or less. I am fine with spreading the man rating around, but let’s not retire a system until it has a fully operational replacement.

And yes, the U.S. government is attempting to diversify its eccentric billionaire penis rocket portfolio.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1UwmgkKgI&t=16s&pp=2AEQkAIB
 
www.spacewar.com

SpaceX launches new round of spy satellites for NRO, and record setting Starlink campaign same day

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2024 - SpaceX launched new spy satellites into lower Earth orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office, adding to the growing constellation of such U.S.-based intelligence-gathering satellites around the world.
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Space Ops: Record 263 Orbital Launches Attempted In 2024 | Aviation Week Network

The 2024 launch rate surpassed the 223 orbital launch attempts in 2023, the previous record.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMUFKbC2A6g
 
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Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.

Ben Holland, the head of Qantas’s operations centre, said there was often little advance notice of where the rockets would fall over the southern Indian Ocean – the re-entry zone chosen by the space company due to its remoteness – causing the airline to delay flights on its Sydney-Johannesburg route.
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www.theguardian.com

Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets, airline says

Delays on Sydney-Johannesburg route after advice from US government over debris from SpaceX rocket re-entry in southern Indian Ocean
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I suppose that falling SpaceX debris is from the breakup of Falcon 9 second-stages as they breakup during reentry.
 
Was thinking this earlier, whoever launches first will have their thunder stolen by the other . . .

cheers,
Robin.
 
Flyaway said:
www.theguardian.com

Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets, airline says

Delays on Sydney-Johannesburg route after advice from US government over debris from SpaceX rocket re-entry in southern Indian Ocean
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Bear in mind that The Guardian has a consistent MO of finding the most minuscule negative that relates to Musk by less than 3 orders of separation and making out he's the antichrist. Sorry to say I used to read it but that was 25 yrs ago.

Life's full of compromises, I'm sure Quantas indirectly receives many benefits from SpaceX's operations.
 
What a week so far. One Falcon 9, two lunar landers. And that weird "race" between Starship seven tonight and New Glenn tomorrow morning.
 
jmspeedfreak said:
Bear in mind that The Guardian has a consistent MO of finding the most minuscule negative that relates to Musk by less than 3 orders of separation and making out he's the antichrist. Sorry to say I used to read it but that was 25 yrs ago.

Life's full of compromises, I'm sure Quantas indirectly receives many benefits from SpaceX's operations.
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I hate to burst your soapbox bubble but this story didn’t originate with The Guardian. By the way I could turn this around and say some seen incapable of taking onboard the slightest criticism of certain companies.
 
Flyaway said:
I hate to burst your soapbox bubble but this story didn’t originate with The Guardian. By the way I could turn this around and say some seen incapable of taking onboard the slightest criticism of certain companies.
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Sounds like the soapbox isn't free right now.... sure, I take your point. I'm not particularly enraged, or foaming at the mouth and for sure it is fair to raise legitimate criticism. Arguably the dropping of debris in this case is to be avoided.

And no article like this would originate from the Guardian itself. That's just obvious.
 

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