SPACEX launched more Starlink satellites into orbit

| June 13, 2020


SpaceX Launch

Launch time: 0921 GMT (5:21 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ninth batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 8. Three SkySat Earth-imaging satellites for Planet will launch as rideshare payloads on this mission. Delayed from late May in ripple effect from Starlink 7 delays. Delayed from June 12. [June 10]

From: Spaceflight Now

Nice pre-dawn launch- showmanship much? Hey, if you can, why not?

Category: Science and Technology

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Rush has a great tune, originally for the Shuttle.

Countdown

5th/77th FA

HELL TO THE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With all due profuse apologies to the Ladies of TAH, and in Honor of the Gunners of LZ Falcon with a BIG SALUTE to our own ChipNASA (a logistics weenie; nothing at all wrong with that), ALL the troops at NASA and the Space X Falcon 9 Program we hereby offer the following; EFF YEAH YOU EFFERS, YOU EFFING GO!!!!! And EFF you China, Russia, NK, Iran, India, The European Space Cadets, and anybody EFFING else that has any doubts of the abilities of ‘Merica! Americans EFFING built that. Americans EFFING launched that. And the Americans EFFING made it land back home. So, BITE ME and know that USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA RULES!!!!!!!!!

I do believe I may have had an involuntary vascular reaction. Got a smoke?

Tanks Mate!

ChipNASA

Yeah, I have a SUPER SpaceX and Spaceflight success Boner. Even better than an A-10. LOL
I can only hope the rest of the mission(s) are as successful.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

I am SO envious. I grew up in the Space Age, both real (Mercury) and Scifi.
But I do not begrudge Elon and his workers their glory.
All of this puts me in mind of the RAH story, “The Man Who Sold the Moon”.