DocM Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 (edited) Starlink V1.0 Launch #4 60 StarLink v1.0 commsats Date: February 15, 2020 Time: 1046 Eastern (1546 UTC) Booster: 1056.4 (CRS-17 & 18, Kacific-1) Booster recovery: ASDS Of Course I Still Love You Fairing recovery: Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief What was that about booster reuse never paying for itself? Also, Bloomberg reports StarLink will be spun off in an IPO. May be a while, likely after the v1.0 LEO constellation is deployed. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/spacex-likely-to-spin-off-starlink-business-and-pursue-an-ipo Unobscured Vision and bguy_1986 1 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 Starlink Launch 4 static fire good. Launch delayed due to recovery zone weather. New T-0, Date: Feb 16 (Sunday) Time: 1025 Eastern (1525 UTC) bguy_1986 and anthdci 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsItPluggedIn Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Did they get any feedback on the new "darkening" they deployed during the last batch? Will they be deploying more/different solutions this time? It would be good to have any other news after the launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 Don't expect to hear much about DarkSat until it arrives at its 550km operational altitude, which may be several more weeks. Measurements between 340km and 550km are only applicable to the transition periods up/down - a tiny part of their 5-year mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 Date: Monday Feb 17 Time: 1003 Eastern (1503 UTC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Skiver Veteran Posted February 17, 2020 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2020 Falcon 9 didn't make the landing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted February 17, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 Wondering if it didn't make a soft "landing" on the water? Didn't see a "boom" or fragments. Of course it will still be ruined (though if in one piece they can probably scavenge parts)... anyway, looking forward to hearing what exactly happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 17, 2020 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2020 Yep I noticed the spray/smoke off to the side. If the engine fired to make that soft of a landing you've got to assume something like a landing leg didn't deploy? Although I thought I heard a call out to say they had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted February 17, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Skiver said: Yep I noticed the spray/smoke off to the side. If the engine fired to make that soft of a landing you've got to assume something like a landing leg didn't deploy? Although I thought I heard a call out to say they had. I'm thinking that the Falcon thought the drone ship was below it ... for whatever reason. I think I heard them call out the landing legs had deployed. Pure assumption though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 17, 2020 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Jim K said: I'm thinking that the Falcon thought the drone ship was below it ... for whatever reason. I think I heard them call out the landing legs had deployed. Pure assumption though. Yep, I'm certain I head the landing legs deployed call out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted February 17, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 ...or it could have been something similar to CRS-16 where it had a problem and aborted the landing. Only time will tell ... I'm sure Elon/SpaceX will give an explanation soon. anthdci and Skiver 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthdci Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, Jim K said: ...or it could have been something similar to CRS-16 where it had a problem and aborted the landing. Only time will tell ... I'm sure Elon/SpaceX will give an explanation soon. it was far enough away to me that I thought it had detected an issue and not done the dog leg kick back towards the ship to save the OCISLY. This was it's 4th flight if i remember rightly? Jim K 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted February 17, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 Yea, 4th flight. You're probably correct...problem detected and it didn't "dogleg kick" back to OCISLY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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