Posted on 10/04/2022 9:38:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Starlink satellites are scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 7:56 p.m. EDT (2356 GMT; 4:56 p.m. local California time). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company(opens in new tab).
It will be the fifth liftoff and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description(opens in new tab). The rocket previously helped launch the NROL-85 and NROL-87 missions for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the Sarah-1 radar satellite for the German government, and another Starlink batch.
While the Falcon 9 first stage is coming in for a landing tonight, the upper stage will continue powering its way to orbit. The 52 Starlink satellites are scheduled to be deployed about 62 minutes after liftoff.
Tonight's launch will be SpaceX's 44th orbital mission of 2022.
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How many are up there now?
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I’ve seen the string of satellites twice so far in the early morning. Beautiful sight.
Over 3,000 of 12,000 planned. Musk’s next rocket design, Starship, can launch 400 at a time and he is proposing 42,000 satellites. That’s when Skynet becomes self aware. It’s no coincidence Musk is now building terminators...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm6dZ1q06ks
It sure seems like the best approach to global coms.
42,000 is crazy. I guess I’ll move to Mexico and learn survival skills with Sarah Connor...
“Tonight’s launch will be SpaceX’s 44th orbital mission of 2022”
That is truly astonishing. A brilliant guy with zero space experience founds a rocket company and 10 or 15 years later is launching that many orbital rockets per year.
“Here’s how to watch” means watching a live video.
But what about watching the stream of satellites going overhead? Where and when can we see that?
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