Anything Space: Next Rocket Launch: Florida today 8:21 pm EDT

Thought seeing this was pretty cool.

HiRISE Captured Perseverance During Descent to Mars

The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere.

From Wikipedia:
High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been orbiting and studying Mars since 2006. The 65 kg (143 lb), US$40 million instrument was built under the direction of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. It consists of a 0.5 m (19.7 in) aperture reflecting telescope, the largest so far of any deep space mission, which allows it to take pictures of Mars with resolutions of 0.3 m/pixel (about 1 foot), resolving objects below a meter across.

HiRISE has imaged Mars exploration rovers on the surface, including the Opportunity rover and the ongoing Curiosity mission.[1]

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Restocking the Space Station launch approximately 30 minutes away

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NASA released some videos

Also they are live right now debrief (caught it late but you can rewind it live also if want to watch from beginning)

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So mankind landed on Mars faster than Deeproot building a pinball.... Interesting !

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No Pinbar required! TM.

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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base this week.

The test launch window is between 11:47 p.m. Tuesday and 5:47 a.m. Wednesday from the northern part of the base.

“The purpose of the ICBM test launch program is to validate and verify the effectiveness, readiness and accuracy of the weapon system, according to Air Force Global Strike Command," base officials said in a press release.

It's the first test launch of a Minuteman III to take place at Vandenberg this year. The last one was in October.

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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base this week.
The test launch window is between 11:47 p.m. Tuesday and 5:47 a.m. Wednesday from the northern part of the base...

Find anyone covering it? Didn't see it in my youtube space links. Didn't see anything on Spaceflight.com either.

You might have to hop in the car and film it for us!

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This is neat, there's a binary message in Perseverance's chute.

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Unfortunately I fell asleep before

An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Tuesday night at 11:49 p.m.

According to Air Force Global Strike Command, the purpose of the ICBM test launch program is to validate and verify the safety, security, effectiveness and readiness of the weapon system.

Col. Joseph Tringe, 30th Space Wing individual mobilization augmentee to the commander, was the launch decision authority and said, “This first launch of the year demonstrates our ability to provide safe, secure range operations to our launch partners while maintaining a continuous state of readiness. The outstanding teamwork of the Airmen and Guardians here at Vandenberg is a true testament to the future of space operations on the Western Range and our ability to defend the United States and our allies.”

The last Minuteman III missile launched in October of 2020.

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Watch some satellites launched on the Falcon 9 live now!

#462 3 years ago

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Scrubbed at t- 1:24 till tomorrow

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#464 3 years ago

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Potentially will launch within 7 minutes

#465 3 years ago

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Engine lit at launch then emergency shut off at T-0.1 seconds. Rocket shut itself off. Most likely won’t try again today. Well they said they might try again today, they are still evaluating as I type this.

Update: on track to launch today currently at T- :50

#466 3 years ago

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Pretty cool picture of the vent time line indicators

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Wow. I admit that every time I see this every hair on my body stands up. Love it! So glad that they delayed the launch and I made it home from work in time

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Awesome launch and it landed, but wasn't perfect. After a bit of time it exploded. Crazy!

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Quoted from LouMatt:
Awesome launch and it landed, but wasn't perfect. After a bit of time it exploded. Crazy!

That was so awesome!!! I almost turned it off but something told me to wait. So glad I did. Wow. Just wow

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Wow, and then another wow. (didn't mean to quote JayDee )

Next up: Falcon 9 launch sometime tonight.

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Quoted from mbwalker:
Wow, and then another wow. (didn't mean to quote JayDee )
Next up: Falcon 9 launch sometime tonight.

Appx when is the falcon launch supposed to be?

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Annnd another whoops.

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Quoted from JayDee:
Appx when is the falcon launch supposed to be?

Darn, in the middle of the night:

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Darn, in the middle of the night:[quoted image]

Ugh, thanks for the info though

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Does anyone know why they wait until the last possible second to come out of the belly flop?
Why not give themselves an extra 5-10 seconds?
It just doesn't seem like they are giving themselves enough time to have a super soft landing.
I realize today was 98% perfect, but... that was quite a jarring bounce.

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Yeah I’m not sure why they wait so close to come out of the belly flop. I thought the same thing too.

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If you can’t sleep

#478 3 years ago

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It's a 20-second landing process, HOLY cow:

landing -20 seconds 3 engines light to undo the belly flop (4 seconds)
landing -16 seconds 3 engines providing vertical force to drastically slow descent (4 seconds)
landing -12 seconds shut off 2 engines (12 seconds with 1 engine)

Visibly with 1 engine, it "seems" like the descent is a static speed, as if 1 is simply not enough to get it done, UNLESS you had run 2 engines for 1-2-3 more seconds to get the velocity closer to zero before you went to 1.

Just wondering!

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Quoted from adol75:
So mankind landed on Mars faster than Deeproot building a pinball.... Interesting !

I heard RM is building an NDA for NASA. Making him look bad and all that.

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Quoted from mof:
Visibly with 1 engine, it "seems" like the descent is a static speed, as if 1 is simply not enough to get it done, UNLESS you had run 2 engines for 1-2-3 more seconds to get the velocity closer to zero before you went to 1.
Just wondering!
-mof

I've heard the NasaSpaceFlight guys mention that if SpaceX throttles down the engines too much, they can't sustain operation. i.e. At some point they will shut off.

So 2 engines running at 50% (or whatever the number is) as opposed to 1 at 100% might not be possible, or at least maybe something they prefer not to do.

But to your point - maybe they just need to run the two engines a little longer before going to one. Definitely a learning curve on the landing profile!

They also mentioned the legs were already an issue, and that they were being redesigned.

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And we thought pinball was full of failed ideas...

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Scott Manley posted a short video with some great 4K video of the legs not working very well. Go to the 4:14 mark.

Some really interesting additional comments.

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Here’s a good video of the SN10 flight and explosion

1 week later

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StarShip SN11 static fire (2nd attempt) today.

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Launch in the wee hours 3/24 morning.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/03/23/testbed-for-nasa-moon-mission-rides-to-orbit-with-six-other-satellites/

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Launch in the wee hours 3/24 morning.

I'll have to watch the 'highlights' reel.

And maybe a SN11 launch Wed or Thurs.? Don't know if they have flight restrictions in place tho, but I'm pretty sure the road is closed.

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There was also a launch in New Zealand yesterday, led by Rocket Lab, a company down the coast from here in Long Beach:

Still no exact date for the next launch near here, the Delta 4 Heavy at Vandenberg with the spy satellite. Just says "April". Won't want to miss that one, though, those are huge.

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Quoted from bobmathuse:
There was also a launch in New Zealand yesterday, led by Rocket Lab, a company down the coast from here in Long Beach:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/03/23/testbed-for-nasa-moon-mission-rides-to-orbit-with-six-other-satellites/
Still no exact date for the next launch near here, the Delta 4 Heavy at Vandenberg with the spy satellite. Just says "April". Won't want to miss that one, though, those are huge.

There's so much rocket stuff going on, I'm having a hard time keeping track of them all!

BTW, LabPadre is saying the Boca Chica flight TFR's for Mar24-25 have been cancelled. Road closures too. So no attempts to launch those days. Mar 26th TFR still in place.

Soyuz launch later tonight.

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Looks like SN11 was a success?

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Quoted from Atari_Daze:
Looks like SN11 was a success?

You might be thinking of the Falcon 9 that was launched early this AM. It was carrying more StarLink sats. StarShip SN11 is still earth bound.

Or SN11 landed right back on the launch platform!!

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Starship SN11 static test any time now. And if goes well...a test flight too.

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Yeah it might fly today

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Yeah it might fly today

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Yeah, was it weather? Wouldn't have seen much anyways...so I guess 'good'.

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Just keep launching those Starlink satellites. My only hope to finally getting high speed internet!

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Update on the Delta IV Heavy National Reconnaissance Office Launch at Vandenberg - - "no earlier than April 26."

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We were eating dinner tonight in Port Canaveral and snapped a couple of pictures of the latest SpaceX booster on the barge. This one is looking particularly toasty after many landings.

SpaceX uses a crane to lower the booster onto a large flatbed truck and carry it back to the hangar.

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I don't listen to any of the chatter, so not sure what this is, can you speak to someone from Space X or something?

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