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Time for another Starlink mission. This one's an evening launch from Vandenburg. It will be the 19th flight of booster B1061.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-02-23 04:11 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-02-22 20:11 (PST) | | Mission | Starlink Group 7-15 | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA. | | Vehicle | Falcon 9 | | Booster | B1061 19th Flight | | Landing | ADSD Of Course I Still Love You at T+00:08:23 | | Inclination | 53° Why? | | Payload | 22 x Starlink V2 Mini deployed at T+01:02:17 | | Customer | SpaceX | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and delivery of payload to low earth orbit|

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWd7EnE8MU | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikloLxNHxvU | SpaceX | https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-7-15 | SpaceFlight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE

NextSpaceflight page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE

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[–] few@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

OCISLY towed by Debra C is making 5.5 knots and currently about 60km (30 nautical miles) off the Mexican coast: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=368351350 (MARMAC 304 is the original registered name of OCISLY)

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting note: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760882381148623202#m

One of the nine Merlin engines powering tonight's first stage is our flight leader, powering its 22nd mission to Earth orbit

I didn't know that the engine flight leader numbers were higher than the booster flight leaders. I wonder how this occurred?

I assumed that they swapped out engines only when they needed refurbishment, and that the engines would always have fewer flights than the boosters. I guess some older engines have been reinstalled in younger boosters?

[–] few@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Support ship Go Beyond is about 4 hours out of Long Beach on its way to "LZ :)" https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9622655

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

M-vac shutdown.

https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m

Starting propellant load for tonight's Falcon 9 launch of 22 @Starlink satellites from California. Rocket and weather are currently go for launch

Feb 23, 2024 · 3:37 AM UTC

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
LZ Landing Zone
MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
OCISLY Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic landing ~~barge~~ ship
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 18 acronyms.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting this thread! It looks great!

Spaceflight Now has a livestream link too now, which you could add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

You might want to adjust the dateful link, as it seems to be pointing to 23:11 on Thursday, rather than 04:11 on Friday.

[–] few@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. The date link was a bit wrong but seems to give the correct result: https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=2011&d=2024-02-23T04:11

I didn't notice the t=2011 argument and just appended T04:11 to the d argument. Seems to work ok for me.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems to work ok for me.

Huh, that's odd. This is what I see:

Also, if you could add the Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links to the table in the main post, that would be great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE

Thanks again for helping out with this thread!

[–] few@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links added. I've also fixed the dateful link. I think it might have been the & that was also messed up and may be resolved differently by different browser - anyway I hope it is fixed now.