Kolejne Starlinki 07.04. o 16:34:18 z Cape Canaveral wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona w T+44' na orbitę o parametrach:
hp=190 km, ha=380 km, i=53,00° 60 satelitów Starlink (misja Starlink 24/v1.0 L23. Pierwszy stopień RN (B1058.7)
w T+8' 45" wylądował na barce ASDS OCISLY na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210401.htm#03SpaceX Starlink 24 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing, 7 April 20211622 wyświetlenia•7 kwi 2021
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1379851411840593925SpaceX launches its 100th mission from Florida’s Space CoastApril 7, 2021 Stephen Clark
(...) The mission Wednesday was the first daytime rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast since Jan. 24, ended a string of late night and predawn blastoffs in recent months. (...)
The Falcon 9’s nose cone, which jettisoned soon after ignition of the second stage engine, was also reused from previous missions. The nose fairing’s two halves were expected to descend to a gentle splashdown in the Atlantic using parachutes, and a recovery boat was on station in the area to retrieve the two shells.
SpaceX has attempted to catch the fairing halves using giant nets affixed to two recovery boats, but that technique proved difficult and unnecessary.
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, said this week that the company will fish the fairing halves out of the sea going forward.
The boats with the fairing recovery nets — named Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief — only managed to catch descending payload shrouds a few times. The nets were designed to prevent damage to the fairing shells from salt water, but SpaceX has managed to recover, refurbish, and reuse the fairing halves after they splashed down in the ocean.
Crews have removed the nets and other fairing recovery equipment from the Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief vessels at Port Canaveral, and one of the boats has already left Florida. (...)
Wednesday’s launch was SpaceX’s 10th Falcon 9 mission so far in 2021, a record pace for SpaceX to start a year. It was the 116th flight of a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket since 2010, and the 100th to take off from a launch pad in Florida.
With this mission, SpaceX has deployed 1,445 Starlink satellites on 26 launches, including prototypes and failed spacecraft. The active fleet of Starlink spacecraft reached roughly 1,380 satellites with the fresh data relay stations that launched Wednesday. (...)
While SpaceX has hinted that the Starlink network might one day number as many as 42,000 satellites, Shotwell said the actual number of Starlink spacecraft in orbit at any given time will hinge on market demand. (...)
Shotwell predicted Tuesday that the Starlink network will be able to serve “every rural household in the United States” in three-to-five years. (...)
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https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3641.msg161797#msg161797https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm