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JCSat-18/Kacific-1 commsat

Date: December 16, 2019
Time: 1910-2038 EST (0010-0138 GMT Dec. 17)

Booster: B1056.3 (CRS-17, CRS-18)
Pad: LC-40
Recovery: ASDS Of Course I Still Love You
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Commercial Crew: Boeing StarlinerOFT (un-crewed test flight to ISS)

Launch Readiness Review completed

Date: December 20, 2019
Time: 0636 Eastern (1136 UT)
Pad: KSC LC-41 (ULA's pad)
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60 more Starlink LEO commsats

Launch date: December 30, 2019
Launch time: 2340 pm EST (0440 UTC, Dec. 31)

Booster: ?? (B1048.5?)
Pad: LC-40
Recovery: ASDS Of Course I Still Love You
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Rocket Lab now has 10 launches under its belt, and is working on reusability; the first stage will parachute in, then be retrieved by a helicopter.

And,
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Fan-art, but a nice size comparison.


https://youtu.be/b2F4vifCSXk

ASDS Just Read the Instructions has spent the summer near NOLA getting upgrades, including beastly automatic positioning thrusters.

Now SpaceX can catch both Falcon Heavy boosters downrange,...

AIUI, the old paper noted NTO/Ti flammability, but they found it wasn't self-propagating at thruster line pressures. Apparently they didn't test at the pressures used in the SuperDraco pressurization...

Some say it should have only been 7 years, but in doing that the nitrogen tetroxide/titanium incomparability discovered during the DM1 test fire may not have been discovered. NASA's already looking...

Ciro Morales @CiroTweeter
Facility being built by #SpaceX on Launch Complex 39A for their #Starship
#NASA #KennedySpaceCenter
@NASAKennedy
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Via an announcement at the Reagan National Defense Forum;

a House/Senate Conference Committee has agreed to create the US Space Force as a 6th military branch in the 2020 National Defense...

Boca Chica,

Sounds like assembly may happen in the IronHenge (wind break)

LabPadre @LabPadre
A ring headed to Iron Henge. #SpaceX #Starship #MK3 #BocaChica #Texas Watch...

Crew Dragon schedule alert!!

Stephen Clark @StephenClark1 (SpaceFlightNow)
Hello from Hawthorne. Got to see the Dragon for the Demo-2 crewed mission. SpaceX aims to ship it out of factory by the...

CRS-19

New booster
3rd flight for this Dragon 1

Webcast has begun
https://youtu.be/-aoAGdYXp_4

Mission Control audio stream
https://youtu.be/JHsNO3N6sbg

KSC LC-39A Starship pad: whoa...what happened to Phase 2? Straight to Phase 3??

The Starship/Super Heavy mount doesn't use a flame trench - it's an elevated platform, or "milk stool," with a...

We have a P239, P250 (hammer) and P320 (striker), the latter two being convert-a-guns with changeable calibers and size.

My P320 is convertible between full size and compact & 3 calibers; but I...

A few items,

1) Cargo Dragon 1 can be used 3 times. Cargo Dragon 2 will start out being reusable 5 times.

2) Falcon 9 Block 5 is in such good shape after each use, up to use #3 and counting, ...

Buy rifle/shotgun racks at the local hardware store, not to mention we carry his & her SIG's ;)

Edit: Cybertruck will have a flip-stop on the tailgate, allowing the hauling of 4x8 foot sheets of...

1) Sounds like Crew Dragon DM2 carries a crew to ISS first. This includes extra crew training.

Chris G - NSF @ChrisG_NSF
NASA says they've done everything to allow #DM2 (SpaceX's crew test...

Just a reminder,

The 3-motor Cybertruck puts out about 800hp with 1,000 lb-f (1,356 N-m) of torque from 0 RPM, and power to the ground via 35/12.5 offroad tires. 16" clearance, adaptive...

Cybertruck promo.

Wonder if Tesla will finally start serious advertising once Model Y, Cybertruck and Roadster 2 get closer?


https://youtu.be/J2U9Hmmpqhc

The SpaceX Operations Area at KSC and LC-39A Starship mods need finishing.

Michael Sheetz ✔ @thesheetztweetz
SpaceX says it paused, but has not fully stopped, Starships development in Florida...

39-A's coming along nicely,

Jared Frankle @realChefJared
A look at #starship launch pad process at 39A.#SpaceX

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https://twitter.com/realChefJared/status/1201578051982839809

Confirmed: the Cocoa site build equipment is moving to the SpaceX Operations Area at KSC.

The KSC LC-39A Starship pad build is progressing nicely,

Julia @julia_bergeron
In all of the...

Moving built parts & jigs to Texas in order to speed up Mk3 could make sense...

@gregscott_photo
SPACEX STARSHIP: 2 Starship bases & a Bulkhead that had been removed from the Cocoa site have just...

New SpaceX Operations Area, south of the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC. This will be the new Florida main build site, starting with Starship Mk4.

Starship Mk3 is already being built at Boca...