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Grey Havoc said:
Grey Havoc said:
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Florida's Space Coast On Track After Ian, Set For 3 Launches In 3 Days - Slashdot

NASA says the damage to their launch facilities in Florida following Hurricane Ian was minimal and work was already underway for a "rapid-fire succession of three launches in three days," reports Ars Technica. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: First up is a commercial...
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That is good news, SpaceX will be glad that no damage was done to the launch site and that they are planning to do three launches in three days.
 
From office of pointless statistics:

SpaceX launch 179 times the Falcon 9 with 143 suborbital landings and reuse.
Launch 30 Astronauts into Space (two private spaceflights)

Blue Origin orbital flights ZERO, 23 suborbital flights.
ULA Atlas V 99 launches, Delta IV 41 launches (terminated)
ArianeGroup Ariane 5 launch 114 times

Records that SpaceX has to brake
Proton rocket 427 launches (terminated)
under current launch numbers SpaceX will reach this in 2026...
 
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The Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station

NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina arrived at the International Space Station Thursday Oct. 6, as the SpaceX Dragon Endurance docked to the complex at 5:01 p.m. EDT while the...
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Also, Col. Nicole Mann is repping us Marines proud up there. Loving the red and gold badge.

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sferrin said:
I wonder if they'll have it stacked before SLS leaves the ground.
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Elon liked this tweet:

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SpaceX is preparing to fully stack Starship again in the next 12 hours.

It'll most likely be stacked for a week before being unstacked again for testing.

After the next unstack, the next time you'll see a full Starship will be for orbital. I believe a November launch is likely!
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This stack is not for launch, just testing, and after about a week Starship 24 and booster 7 will be de-stacked again.

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Starship 24 and Booster 7 fully stacked on the orbital launch pad at Starbase
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Timelapse of Ship 24 being stacked onto Booster 7 for the first time.

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The Ship Quick Disconnect has connected to Ship 24.
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Aaaaand it was almost immediately retracted lol. Looks like it will once again take multiple tries!
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They then did a test of a full speed Quick Disconnect retraction, but all in all looking positive for whatever full-stack alignment issue being resolved. Still no road closures scheduled for the remainder of the week.
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This mission will be expending a new core stage.

B1066 is a Falcon Heavy center core that will fly NET October 28th as part of the USSF-44 mission. It's new and it being expended will allow the second stage have enough performance to push that mission's payloads into GEO. Will look more or less like this..
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Falcon Heavy launch date has changed. New date for launch is Oct 31st at 6:44am EDT from pad 39A at #NASA. #SpaceX
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Now I hear automation has struck again-in the form of a SpaceX engineer struck down into a coma while his wife had to use a go-fund me page over medical bills. Elon needs to man-up, prepare to be slapped by the wife after hand delivering her a big check. Two in fact, in case she tears up the first one. That's how you show the world you're better than Boeing.
 
At NSF, the current speculation is December to February. They are pushing hard to make an attempt this year, but given that they'll have to do a bunch of things that they haven't done yet before that, I think it's a fairly safe bet that it will be delayed until next year.

Gonna be weirdly close with the SLS, either one could be up first.
 
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NASA names an all-Goddard team to study the @spacex @PolarisProgram pitch to reboost Hubble.
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Hi Irene - thanks very much for following up on this. We can now share the confirmed list of NASA team members, though the team may request or bring in additional support as technical questions arise:

Barbara Grofic, program manager, Astrophysics Project Division, NASA Goddard (NASA lead)
Patrick L. Crouse, Hubble project manager, NASA Goddard
Brian J. Roberts, robotic technologist, Satellite Servicing Projects Division, NASA Goddard
Jennifer J. Wiseman, Hubble project scientist, NASA Goddard
David N. Haskins, Hubble mission operations manager, NASA Goddard
Jackie Townsend, program manager, Astrophysics Strategic Missions Program, NASA Goddard

NASA informed ESA about the study and will update them as it progresses. The team may request technical expertise from ESA as well.
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Correction from@nasa PAO : Jackie Townsend’s updated title is Deputy Project Manager for the Roman Space Telescope,
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Considering what they are hoping to achieve on this mission maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised if it encounters additional delays out of their control, along with general congestion at the launch complex.

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Polaris Dawn crewed mission could suffer additional delays - SpaceNews

A billionaire-backed private astronaut mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon has slipped from late this year to March 2023 and could be further delayed.
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