Fairing halves are flying for their 20th and 10th times.
Stage 1 RP-1 load is complete.
Optus-X/TD7 launch thread
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-17, 22:28 | | --- | --- | | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-17, 17:28 (EST) | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1077-16 | | Landing | A Shortfall of Gravitas | | Payload | Optus-X/TD7 | | Customer | Optus | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link | | --- | --- | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUgL7P8LrOk | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9a0aMJ7Lyo | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p11tCjqKN5I | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1858273649871982643 | The Space Devs |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 21st launch from LC-39A this year
☑️ 6 days, 5:06:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 44th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 85th landing on ASOG
☑️ 371st Falcon family booster landing, 377th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 111th Falcon 9 mission this year, 397th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 113th SpaceX mission of 2024, 413th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 116th SpaceX launch this year, 427th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
> An unannounced geostationary communication satellite built by Northrop Grumman, alleged for the Australian telecommunications operator Optus. Details TBD.
Neural, I think?
As Emperor said, "if you see a need for a community, start it".
and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn't be able to harm the One Ring
I don't remember this. Where was this mentioned? Council of Elrond?
How would building a bus manufacturing base affect that?
I hope Northvolt can pull through. It would be cool to have a giant battery factory in Europe.
This is obviously a problem. What can be done about it? Are there any voting reform initiatives in Ontario we should be highlighting?
Why do many companies try to boost sales in Q4?
When Jabba around breathing, so does the film.
Was "around" supposed to be a different word? I can't quite make sense of this sentence.
Busy start to the week...
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1857909172173734251
> SpaceX teams targeting four launches from all four launch pads in Texas, Florida, and California
So there is a Starship-chan too...
>"we choose to go to mars in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — starship chan, 2026, at starbase, BocaChica
TIL that Taco Bell placed a target for Mir's re-entry in 2001
https://spacenews.com/free-tacos-for-us-if-mir-hits-floating-taco-bell-ocean-target-taco-bell-sets-40-by-40-foot-target-in-south-pacific-for-mirs-re-entry/
FAA moves forward with committee to review launch licensing regulations
The FAA is moving ahead with a long-awaited committee to evaluate ways to improve launch licensing regulations as one executive calls for greater changes.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and posted it on the arXiv preprint server.
Impulse Space buys three Falcon 9 launches
Impulse Space has purchased three Falcon 9 launches for its Helios transfer vehicle for missions starting in 2026, including one for the Space Force.
Tianzhou-8 spacecraft delivers supplies, key experiments to Tiangong space station
Tianzhou-8 spacecraft delivers supplies, key experiments to Tiangong space station
