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    Falcon Heavy; US Space Force-44 spysat

    USSF-44 spysat

    Date: October 9, 2021
    Time: TBD
    Pad: LC-39A
    Recovery: 2 boosters on Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas
    Orbit: direct insertion to geosynchronous orbit

    Bring yer popcorn
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
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    Falcon Heavy will be flexing its muscles a bit; three direct to geostationary satellites at once. No GTO (geostationary transfer orbit), straight to 35,785 km (22,236 miles).

    USSF-44: a US spysat

    Aurora 4A: a commercial commsat

    TETRA-1: a tech demo microsat built by Boeing's Millennium Space Systems [read: Boeing Phantom Works] for USSF's Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium

    Date: October 9, 2021
    Time: TBA
    Pad: LC-39A
    Recovery: Expended center core. 2 boosters on Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas
    Orbit: direct insertion to geosynchronous orbit

    Aurora 4A
    New telecom satellite for Alaska on schedule for launch next summer; will provide broadband, high-speed internet across state
    https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/new-telecom-satellite-for-alaska-on-schedule-for-launch-next-summer-will-provide-broadband-high/article_3c355424-0dad-11eb-8f93-0feaade192f0.html
    A new communications satellite dedicated to Alaska is set for its launch next summer. It will provide affordable broadband service across the state, said Chuck Schumann, CEO of Alaska-based Pacific


    TETRA-1
    U.S. Space Force’s TETRA-1 Satellite is Ready for Launch 
    https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2020/04/24/u-s-space-forces-tetra-1-satellite-is-ready-for-launch/
    Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, designed, manufactured, assembled, and integrated the U.S. Space Force TETRA-1 satellite in 15 months,
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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    • #3
      Falcon Heavy USSF-44 live stream

      Date: Nov 1

      Time: 0941 Eastern
      Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 31 October 2022, 19:51.
      Dr. Mordrid
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      I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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      • #4
        Man, that landing of the boosters still is an amazing sight to me. Hadn't realised these were succesful number 150/151 already. Just like rockets, time flies.
        Last edited by Umfriend; 2 November 2022, 01:44. Reason: Typo
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        • #5
          Russia also did two lunches recently. A military spy satellite and Progress cargo to ISS. Despite the war ISS is still operating on cooperative basis.

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          • #6
            And yes, the landing of boosters is amazing.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Umfriend View Post
              Man, that landing of the boosters still is an amazing sight to me. Hadn't realised these were succesful number 150/151 already. Just like rockets, time flies.
              As God and Robert A. Heinlein intended...
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Dr Mordrid View Post
                As God and Robert A. Heinlein intended...
                As can be read in the letters from Paul to the Russians (being the first to travel space)? I thought those were considered apocryphal?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Umfriend View Post
                  As can be read in the letters from Paul to the Russians (being the first to travel space)? I thought those were considered apocryphal?
                  God & RAH will be getting a workout given Falcon Heavy will be flying rather frequently.

                  Right now it's waiting for payloads to be completed, but it'll be flying not only DOD payloads but missions to the asteroid Psyche, Jovian Moon Europa, and multiple missions for the Artemis lunar program including parts for the Lunar Gateway station and the new Dragon XL for lunar cargo.

                  It and Vulcan will be taking over for the Delta 4 Heavy, put carrying much larger payloads.

                  Then comes Starship for the really big stuff. NASA says the first test flight should come next month.
                  Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 16 November 2022, 01:50.
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