Kolejna paczka Starlinków 06.10. o 11:29:34,541 z KSC wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona w T+42' 28" na orbitę o parametrach:
hp=190 km, ha=380 km, i=53,00° 60 satelitów Starlink (misja Starlink 13/v1.0 L12). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1058.3)
w T+8' 24" wylądował na barce ASDS OCISLY na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n201001.htm#02SpaceX Starlink 13 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing, 6 October 20206899 wyświetleń•6 paź 2020
Start Falcona 9 z trzynastą paczką Starlink (...) Proces podwyższania orbity zajmie kilka tygodni. Start był kilkukrotnie opóźniany, w tym z przyczyn pogodowych, ale także z powodu małych problemów technicznych z rakietą. (...)
Był to już trzynasty start Falcona 9 w budowie mega-konstelacji satelitarnej Starlink.
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(PFA, S-X)
https://kosmonauta.net/2020/10/start-falcona-9-z-trzynasta-paczka-starlink/SpaceX breaks cycle of scrubs with successful Falcon 9 launchOctober 6, 2020 Stephen Clark
A Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from pad 39A Tuesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX(...) The Falcon 9’s first stage nailed the landing — the 61st successful recovery of a SpaceX rocket booster — as the second stage injected the mission’s 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The reusable booster used on Tuesday’s mission completed its third trip to space and back, following flights earlier this year to help send NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken into orbit on a Crew Dragon capsule in May, and a launch in July with South Korea’s Anasis 2 military communications satellite.
One half of the two-piece, clamshell-like payload fairing on Tuesday’s mission was also making its third flight. A recovery boat in the Atlantic caught the reusable fairing half again Tuesday as it descended under a parachute. (...)
The successful launch Tuesday occurred on SpaceX’s fifth try to send the next 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.
A launch attempt Sept. 17 was called off due to poor sea conditions in the downrange recovery zone for the Falcon 9’s reusable first stage booster. Then SpaceX scrubbed a Sept. 28 launch attempt at T-minus 31 seconds because of bad weather at the launch site.
SpaceX tried again to launch the Starlink mission Thursday, Oct. 1, but an unexpected reading from a ground sensor prompted an automatic abort at T-minus 18 seconds. A fourth launch attempt Monday ended just before fueling of the Falcon 9 rocket as rain showers and thunderstorms moved over the Kennedy Space Center.
Cumulus clouds from nearby rain showers threatened to scrub Tuesday’s countdown, but the weather held off long enough for the Falcon 9 to fire off into a clear sky.
Amid the Starlink launch attempts in recent weeks, teams at Cape Canaveral have tried to send two other missions into orbit. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/06/spacex-breaks-cycle-of-scrubs-with-successful-falcon-9-launch/SpaceX Ends 'Scrubtober' for Space Coast With Sunrise Starlink-13 LaunchBy Ben Evans, on October 6th, 2020
Starlink 12 headed to orbit. Photos: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpacehttps://www.americaspace.com/2020/10/06/spacex-ends-scrubtober-for-space-coast-with-sunrise-starlink-13-launch/Statystyki startu:
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4226.msg151265#msg151265https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/10/spacex-twelfth-launch-starlink-v1-0/AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3641.msg151638#msg151638https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm