Ciekawa historia B1073Drugi start większych Starlinków 19.04. o 14:31:10 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R, która wyniosła na orbitę 21 satelitów Starlink V2 mini (misja Starlink 6-2). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1073.8 ) w T+8' 26" wylądował na barce ASDS ASOG na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n230416.htm#02SpaceX Starlink 79 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 19 April 2023https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1648698125614477312https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1648873356198916098https://twitter.com/JennyHPhoto/status/1651001569003937795https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1648670873237311489MISSION STATS:218th of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
228th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
8th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1073
158th flight of a reused Falcon booster
185th SpaceX launch from Florida’s Space Coast
121st Falcon 9 launch from pad 40
176th launch overall from pad 40
80th Falcon 9 launch primarily dedicated to Starlink network
24th Falcon 9 launch of 2023
25th launch by SpaceX in 2023
19th orbital launch attempt based out of Cape Canaveral in 2023
https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/04/19/falcon-9-starlink-6-2-coverage/SpaceX Flies Year’s 25th Mission, Looks to Starship/Super Heavy Debut Tomorrowby Ben Evans April 19 2023
In support of launch, the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS), “A Shortfall of Gravitas”, put to sea out of Port Canaveral last Saturday, bound for a recovery spot some 400 miles (640 kilometers) downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. Introduced into SpaceX’s drone-ship fleet in midsummer 2021, and first used to recover a Falcon 9 core late the following August, ASOG has now successfully retrieved 34 boosters, including eight so far in 2023 alone, most recently less than two weeks ago.
And the booster which flew this morning’s mission has already sealed not only her reusability credentials, but also her status as one of the “healthiest” Falcon 9s in SpaceX’s burgeoning fleet. B1073 entered service last May and including today’s launch has now lofted 178 Starlinks, plus the SES-22 and Amazonas Nexus geostationary communications satellites and a lunar-bound mission with Japan’s Hakuto-R lander, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rashid rover and NASA’s water-ice-seeking Lunar Flashlight.
Just last month, she also became the most flight-experienced Falcon 9 ever to lift a payload—human or cargo—to the International Space Station (ISS). Making her seventh trek uphill, she carried the CRS-27 Cargo Dragon aloft under the second-round Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) contract between NASA and SpaceX. That mission ended last weekend, when the Cargo Dragon splashed down off the Florida Coast to wrap up a highly successful month-long stay at the orbital outpost.
In comments made at the CRS-27 pre-flight press conference, NASA’s Phil Dempsey, transportation integration manager for the ISS Program, explained that there exists a set of “criteria that we use…to evaluate the components of a booster”, as part of the decision process in selecting one for flight. He added that the decision is “based on the assessment of the health of a booster” and not on its number of prior missions.
https://www.americaspace.com/2023/04/19/spacex-flies-years-25th-mission-looks-to-starship-super-heavy-debut-tomorrow/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/04/starlink-6-2/https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v2-mini.htmStarlink v2-Mini G6-2-1 (Starlink 30096) (~750 kg ?)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-2 (Starlink 30107)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-3 (Starlink 30106)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-4 (Starlink 30095)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-5 (Starlink 30103)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-6 (Starlink 30113)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-7 (Starlink 30098)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-8 (Starlink 30090)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-9 (Starlink 30049)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-10 (Starlink 30083)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-11 (Starlink 30089)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-12 (Starlink 30086)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-13 (Starlink 30109)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-14 (Starlink 30108)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-15 (Starlink 30104)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-16 (Starlink 30101)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-17 (Starlink 30111)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-18 (Starlink 30097)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-19 (Starlink 30099)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-20 (Starlink 30094)
Starlink v2-Mini G6-2-21 (Starlink 30112)