Jedenasty start Falcona 18.12. o 12:41:40 z Vandenberg wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona w T+8' 50" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=190 km, ha=380 km, i=53,2° 52 satelity Starlink (misja Starlink Group 4-4). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1051.11) w T+8' 41" wylądował na barce ASDS OCISLY na Pacyfiku.
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4784.msg172343#msg172343SpaceX Starlink 33 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing, 18 December 2021Here are some statistics on today's mission:132nd launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
140th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
11th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1051
33rd dedicated launch of Starlink satellites
19th SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base
77th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
29th Falcon 9 launch of 2021
29th orbital launch by SpaceX in 2021
7th orbital launch attempt based out of Vandenberg in 2021
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/18/falcon-9-starlink-4-4-mission-status-center/SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California on unusual coast-hugging trajectoryDecember 18, 2021 Stephen Clark
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base with 52 Starlink internet satellites. Credit: SpaceX(...) The 52 satellites, each a little more than a quarter-ton, will use krypton-fueled ion thrusters to maneuver into their operating orbits at an altitude of 335 miles (540 kilometers), joining the rest of the Starlink fleet providing global internet service. With the newest batch of satellites, SpaceX has launched 1,944 Starlink spacecraft since May 2019.
A tabulation maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and widely-respected tracker of spaceflight activity, showed that before the Starlink 4-4 mission, SpaceX had 1,729 functioning Starlink satellites in orbit. Of those, 1,467 satellites are operational, while the rest are still maneuvering into their slots in the constellation, or are otherwise working but not providing internet service. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/18/spacex-launches-starlink-satellites-from-california-on-unusual-coast-hugging-trajectory/https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/17/spacex-to-set-new-company-records-with-back-to-back-weekend-launches/William Harwood@cbs_spacenews
F9/Starlink: ...and touchdown! This marks SpaceX's 98th successful booster recovery and its 75th at sea
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1472187642515185668F9/Starlink: Starlink deploy confirmed through Punta Arenas; that wraps up he 132nd Falcon 9 flight with two more launches coming up to close out a record 31-flight year for SpaceX: Turksat 5B from the CCSFS at 10:58pm this evening and the CRS-24 ISS resupply mission on 12/21
LHA map for #Starlink Group 4-4 from VSFB SLC-4E NET 17 Dec 09:46 UTC, alternatively 18 Dec based on issued NOTMARs. B1051.11 landing 638km downrange. Estimated groundtrack to 53.22° orbit. Stage2 debris reentry reentry in North Pacific. http://bit.do/LHA15
https://twitter.com/Raul74Cz/status/1471130257029746696https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1472193483209388036SpaceX Kicks Off First of Three Launches in Three Daysby Ben Evans December 18, 2021
Beautiful view of the nine Merlin 1D+ first-stage engines appearing to “flare” in the rarefied high atmosphere. Photo Credit: SpaceX(...) More than seven months since her most recent flight, B1051 was transported to the pad last week and underwent a customary Static Fire Test of her nine Merlin 1D+ engines early Friday. SpaceX announced shortly thereafter that it was targeting 1:24 a.m. PST Saturday for launch, but late Friday this T-0 was nudged to the backup opportunity a little more than three hours later at 4:41 a.m. PST.
The record-setting booster for last night’s flight first entered service in March 2019, when she delivered an unpiloted Crew Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS) for the critical Demo-1 mission in support of the Commercial Crew Program. She then lifted Canada’s three-spacecraft Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) the following June. Those two opening missions of her career saw B1051 fly both from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida and from SLC-4E at Vandenberg.
In 2020, she became the first Falcon 9 core to launch four times and five times in a single calendar year. Just last January, she established a new record—now beaten—for the shortest launch-to-launch interval of an orbital-class booster. And in 2021, she became the first Falcon 9 core to record eighth, ninth, tenth and now 11th missions. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/12/18/spacex-kicks-off-first-of-three-launches-in-three-days/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/12/starlink-4-4/AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3641.msg172424#msg172424https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-5.htm
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