SpaceX Begins a Day With Two Falcon 9 Launches, Seventh Flight of a Recycled Rocket

While tonight will see SpaceX's 16th launch of its broadband satellites, that launch will also make history, reports CNET: The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket is set to make its seventh flight, which would be a record for rocket recycling for the company. The booster previously flew on four Starlink missions and a pair of larger telecom satellite launches. SpaceX will likely attempt to land the booster on a droneship in the Atlantic shortly after launch and may also try to catch the two halves of the nose cone or fairing with another pair of ships.

This all happens just about 10 hours after SpaceX is scheduled to perform another big launch on the other side of the country. On Saturday morning [in just one half hour], another Falcon 9 will blast off from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California carrying the new NASA/European Space Agency Sentinel 6 Michael Freilich satellite designed to monitor global sea level rise and improve weather forecasting...

You can watch the whole thing right here.
SpaceX has also begun tweeting photos taken last weekend during its Crew Dragon capsule's flight from earth— and its arrival at the International Space Station.

Falcon 9 Starlink launch scheduled for November 22

[duckintheface]

The launch mentioned in the article is not happening on November 21. It is happening on November 22 at 9:56 PM

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[ddtmm]

https://spaceflightnow.com/lau... [spaceflightnow.com]

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[4wdloop]

Holly crap - we are putting a lot of junk into the orbit!

Fill me in

[AlanObject]

Is it just me or are the number of posts about Elon Musk being a fraud/failure/phony about to be arrested by the SEC at any minute becoming more scarce?

I hate to admit it but I sort of live for that shit these days.

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[Insanity Defense]

The people who push that type of thing are too busy defending Trumps election nonsense.

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[swillden]

Is it just me or are the number of posts about Elon Musk being a fraud/failure/phony about to be arrested by the SEC at any minute becoming more scarce?

Elon's craziness has been going in different directions lately. Tweeting weird crap about Coronavirus and whatnot. Really, I think it's for the best. He seems to have to engage in some sort of craziness, and this way it doesn't mess with his companies.

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[andydread]

It is his craziness that created the companies in the first place. No one else was crazy enough to build electric cars but he was not only crazy he was smart knowing that if he build high-performance electric cars they will sell. He was crazy enough to tell rocket scientists that they need to start building reusable rockets. When they rebuffed his craziness he started he was crazy enough to start a company to do it. Now his other crazy idea is high speed tunnel transportation. He started a company to d

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[cowdung]

3 absolutely crazy business ideas:

- electric cars
- rocket company
- solar panels

And later added:
- boring company
- neural implants

Totally insane. Nobody can make much with such things.

Elon somehow does.

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[swillden]

I think that's a different sort of craziness than the one I'm referring to.