USSF-44 spysat
Date: October 9, 2021
Time: TBD
Pad: LC-39A
Recovery: 2 boosters on Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas
Orbit: direct insertion to geosynchronous orbit
Bring yer popcorn
Falcon Heavy; US Space Force-44 spysat
USSF-44 spysat
Date: October 9, 2021
Time: TBD
Pad: LC-39A
Recovery: 2 boosters on Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas
Orbit: direct insertion to geosynchronous orbit
Bring yer popcorn
Dr. Mordrid
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Falcon Heavy will be flexing its muscles a bit; three direct to geostationary satellites at once. No GTO (geostationary transfer orbit), straight to 35,785 km (22,236 miles).
USSF-44: a US spysat
Aurora 4A: a commercial commsat
TETRA-1: a tech demo microsat built by Boeing's Millennium Space Systems [read: Boeing Phantom Works] for USSF's Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium
Date: October 9, 2021
Time: TBA
Pad: LC-39A
Recovery: Expended center core. 2 boosters on Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas
Orbit: direct insertion to geosynchronous orbit
Aurora 4A
https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/...aade192f0.html
TETRA-1
https://www.satellitetoday.com/gover...dy-for-launch/
Dr. Mordrid
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
Falcon Heavy USSF-44 live stream
Date: Nov 1
Time: 0941 Eastern
Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 31st October 2022 at 19:51.
Dr. Mordrid
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
Man, that landing of the boosters still is an amazing sight to me. Hadn't realised these were succesful number 150/151 already. Just like rockets, time flies.
Last edited by Umfriend; 2nd November 2022 at 01:44. Reason: Typo
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[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - Veblen
Russia also did two lunches recently. A military spy satellite and Progress cargo to ISS. Despite the war ISS is still operating on cooperative basis.
And yes, the landing of boosters is amazing.
As God and Robert A. Heinlein intended...Originally Posted by Umfriend
Dr. Mordrid
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
As can be read in the letters from Paul to the Russians (being the first to travel space)? I thought those were considered apocryphal?
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[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - Veblen
God & RAH will be getting a workout given Falcon Heavy will be flying rather frequently.As can be read in the letters from Paul to the Russians (being the first to travel space)? I thought those were considered apocryphal?
Right now it's waiting for payloads to be completed, but it'll be flying not only DOD payloads but missions to the asteroid Psyche, Jovian Moon Europa, and multiple missions for the Artemis lunar program including parts for the Lunar Gateway station and the new Dragon XL for lunar cargo.
It and Vulcan will be taking over for the Delta 4 Heavy, put carrying much larger payloads.
Then comes Starship for the really big stuff. NASA says the first test flight should come next month.
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