Heads up that Hispasat should be flying late tonight. Recovery attempt has apparently been called off due to poor conditions at the landing site, so that'll be interesting to see how they handle it.

T-1h

Still cool. And it's Davie Jones' locker for the first stage.

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A city bus to geostationary orbit? Nice.

I hadn't noticed this on the horizon until today. April could be a fun month.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-thr...aunches-month/

SpaceX aims for 3 rocket launches in a single week, 6 launches in 1 month
By Eric Ralph
Posted on March 8, 2018

Tailing an intense February that saw SpaceX successfully complete inaugural launches of both Falcon Heavy and two Starlink prototype satellites, the next three weeks of March are likely to be relatively quiet. However, by all appearances, SpaceX is preparing for a frenetic end-of-month that could include three Falcon 9 launches from three separate SpaceX launch pads, all in a single week, and as many as six launches total between March 29 and April 30.

(more at the link)

Falcon Heavy highlight video. Center core splashdown footage is at 1:11, so that's fun(ish).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why Falcon Heavy &amp; Starman?<br><br>Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did for you. <a href="https://t.co/5STO7q4wro">https://t.co/5STO7q4wro</a></p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/972628124893671432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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https://i.imgur.com/kjsJhbL.gif

When the cores are coming down they aim for a location next to the barge and only divert to on the barge at the last minute if everything is ok. This was going too fast, so no diversion.

- Reddit

Makes a lot of sense actually.

In case anyone uses Facebook to keep track of SpaceX stuff...

Elon Musk has removed Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages after Twitter challenge

Who needs facebook when you have Daface?


No really, Musk is the man.... but the facebook feed was nice.

I'm always fascinated by subtle, yet incredibly smart lines of thinking.

Iridium's slipping, for once not due to a SpaceX issue.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are having an issue with 1 of the 10 satellites in prep for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iridium5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iridium5</a>. Our supplier and launch team is resetting for NET 3/31, with potential to shift into next week, if not resolved quickly. Launch success is priority #1! Will provide more info as available. <a href="https://t.co/WBIWczrBvD">pic.twitter.com/WBIWczrBvD</a></p>&mdash; Matt Desch (@IridiumBoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/IridiumBoss/status/978709671556141056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Should be an exciting weekend with CRS-14 on deck for next Monday.

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EDIT: Looks like they figured it out, so date has been moved back UP.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Positive update to our satellite and launch delay. Just been apprised there has been a technical resolution; satellites and F9 are in great shape and ready to go! Was ground harness test cable issue - now fixed. Launch now pulled back to Friday, 3/30 at 7:14am pdt! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoTeam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoTeam</a>!</p>&mdash; Matt Desch (@IridiumBoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/IridiumBoss/status/978795278118653952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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(Less than) 24-hour bump for Iridium Next 5. I may have to come in to work a little early tomorrow to catch it.

No landing for either this or CRS-14, though. I understand why they're burning through their stockpile, but it doesn't make for very exciting webcasts.

SpaceX won approval from the FCC for their satellite internet constellation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/fcc-...-services.html

If they do it, it'd be a minimum of 45 launches and up to 250 to get it going. Guess they're counting on this reusability thing to actually work because that's a **** ton of launches.

Bump.