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delays delays delays edition

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6KogxG5BE
Launch: Saturday, July 11 10:54 AM EDT / 14:54 UTC
Probability of violating weather constraints: 40% (https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Starlink-L9%20L-1%20Forecast-%2011%20Jul%20Launch.pdf?ver=2020-07-10-083828-253))
Backup launch: ?
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with first stage B1051.5 (prior launches: Starlink-6, Starlink-3, RADARSAT, DM-1)
Launch pad: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Fairings: New
Fairing recovery: Possible?
First stage landing: On droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You'

Payload: 57 SpaceX Starlink satellites & Spaceflight Industries Blacksky 5 + 6 satelites
Payload mass & destination orbit: ~15,600 kg (~260 kg / Starlink sat); 210 x 366 km @ ~53°; Starlink sats will eventually orbit-raise to 550 km
Starlink-L9 TLE: https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink-10.txt
>https://www.starlink.com
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm
>https://spacenews.com/blacksky-launching-two-satellites-on-june-starlink-mission/
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/blacksky-global.htm
>https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/795
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_Industries#BlackSky

Launch viewing guide for Florida: http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html
SpaceX twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX
SpaceX launch statistics: This will be the 56th landed first stage, 37th re-flight of a first stage, and 89th Falcon 9 launch. It is the 12th SpaceX launch of 2020.

>> No.11889842

Noice. I just noticed I left it open in a browser tab and checked to see why 15 minutes ago there wasn't a launch thread.
Please, no more scrubs for a while, mmm'kay KSC?

>> No.11889871

>inb4 another delay

>> No.11889883

>>11889871
https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1281934713704329216

>Multiple sources say SpaceX has called off today's launch from Florida of a Falcon 9 rocket with the next batch of Starlink broadband satellites and a pair of BlackSky Earth-imaging payloads.

>> No.11889888

cucked again

>> No.11889896

>>11889883
Ahhhhhhhhhh

>> No.11889913

I've had that browser tab open on my videos playing computer for like two weeks now, I guess it'll have to ride for another few days.

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11889918

>>11889883
Yeah.

>> No.11889927

Has there been any word on why all these scrubs? Weather? Rocket problems? Cosmic rays?

>> No.11889952

>>11889883
fuck Florida weather

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11889965

give me that 95% weather availability, bald cowboy

>> No.11889972

>>11889965
Alternatively we could build a lunch site over the Sahara

>> No.11890110

ELON PLEASE GET ME OFF THIS FAGGOT PLANET!

>> No.11890114

>>11889972
sand-wiches

>> No.11891183

>>11889965
Just because it can fly through high winds and lightning doesn't mean they will.