Falcon 9/EcoStar 23 launch in about 20 hours
>Launch window: 0534-0804 GMT (1:34-4:04 a.m. EDT)
>Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch EchoStar 23 communications satellite for EchoStar Corp. EchoStar 23, based on a spare platform from the canceled CMBStar 1 satellite program, will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil.
>spaceflightnow.com
Gather around kids, bring all your memes
Is this the relaunch?
No, not really sure what happened to that. Think it was for SES10/11, but the date seem to have been pushed back.
expendable?
How long til RUD?
40% chance of favorable weather pretty much means 0% chance of launch.
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This is a fully expendable new rocket, due to the high payload. Echostar 23 is about 5.5 tonnes and the excess capacity will likely be used to launch it to higher than a normal GTO, to reduce the propellant cost of the circularization burn, and thereby increase the satellite's lifespan.
This is probably one of the old contracts that SpaceX signed when they didn't have much negotiating power to make margin for reuse.
They're still planning to do the relaunch before the end of the month. It'll carry SES 10, a 5.3 tonne GEO comsat. I believe there will be a recovery attempt. Obviously, it will have to be downrange, on the drone ship.
DREAM ON, MARS MAN
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>They're still planning to do the relaunch before the end of the month
Yeah im hoping for it, but then again they were talking about a February launch in Desember/January, so hopefully it wont slip any further.
Right now they're saying March 30th, which is a little *too* close to push back again isn't it?
I mean unless they do that thing where the entire thing is set up on the launchpad and then somebody goes "5... 4... 3... 2... lol j/k we'll try again later"
>Hold hold hold....for 2 months...tihihi"
They aren't even gonna land the first stage? Why should I want to watch this then? Isn't this just like any other launch of any other company in history?
MEME ON, DREAD MAN
Well, there might be explosions.
>this is the first expendable launch out of LC-39A since the launch of Skylab nearly 46 years ago
really gets the noggin joggin
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what did he meant by that?
DREAM ON, MARS MAN
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When can we post memes.
Orlando user here, currently raining with 90% cloud cover. Launch is a 50/50.
dead thread
dead rocket company
dead dream
dream on, mars man
make us all proud
Launches are cool even if there aren't any landings afterwards desu
>implying I will take the bait
DREAM ON, MARS MAN
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this is horrifying
welcome, newfriend
this is great
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Any anons have a live camera feed from the cape?
cut my life into pieces
>commercial TV satellite
People still watch TV?
>Elmore Smoak · Arlington, Virginia
>It appears many people in Brazil watch television:
>en.wikipedia.org
>So what is the point of your comment? Please explain.//
>It appears, based on your comments on this site, that you barely know how to read and write. I would stick to the TV if I were you.
lol
Kek
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>Elon launching the same payloads as Space Shuttle at a fraction of the cost and 0 human risk
Oh, I thought it was tormorrow afternoon. I wish them well, but I'm not staying up for a no-landing-attempt launch.
so shit launch probability and not reusable
how exciting
you shut your nigger mouth
if dubs, launch will be scrubbed
It's Happening!
maybe they stopped being a pussy about the weather
no rocket has ever blown up because of bad weather
Who's going to SCE to AUX
A steely eyed missile man in Mission Control.
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#TheBachelorFinale
SCRUBBED
ULA wins again
reeeeeee
who wants to recover the booster from the atlantic and sell it to ULA?
noooooooo
wtf I hate wind now
>S C R U B B E D
MUSKF IS FINISHED
WILL ELONKINS EVER RECOVER?
The Falcon Heavy is being delayed another year
The ITS will never launch
Going to manage like 6 more launches until the next blowup
SpaceX is fucking threw
BIG
ULA
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
So?
so its scrubbed
minimum like 48 hours turn around
Oh not again
Falcon 9 on 16th
Delta IV on 17th
Atlas V on 21st
Falcon 9 on 29th
it's happening lads
hopefully
DREAM ON, MARS MAN
Dream On Mars Man
thats the SLS, senpai. wrong rocket
Missile Macross when?
but can the thread stay alive for 48 hours?
Anything is possible with enough memes
Challenger asploded because it was too cold out.
too apt
>Macross
Is That Robotech
What's a missile macross
this horrible thing, i think
youtube.com
Will post shitty memes until launch.
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They might be bad, but at least they are new. I lol'ed
Those are some pretty shitty memes brah
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SITREP? Launch scrubbed, but when is next window?
Around 1:35 am.
wtf
let that mouse go
Who do you think you are? Mouses?
Looks like they're just anesthetizing it. Or would you prefer experiments to be performed unsedated?
I think that is a rat.
>prefer experiments to be performed unsedated
/pol says yes.
Where is the photo of this force field?
only 9ish hours to go.
Orlando user here. Weather is very favorable for tonight's launch. Also it is cold as shit here.
>it is cold as shit here.
> 58°
Yeah right
If it's not at least 70 out, its cold as shit to a floridian.
>you will never erect elon's strongback
why even live?
I can't be in 58° F with anything more than a tshirt and shorts...