http://www.spacex.com/webcast is live

Should get an interesting look at Irma.

Beautiful launch against that backdrop of Irma cumulus clouds.

And lands through a cloud.

Woot. Now they have to get that stage down and in the hangar in a hurry!

That was the smoothest mission we've seen. Up, down, done.

While there is some level of truth to the idea that space debris is a problem, saying that it's anywhere close to "boxing us in" is silly. Hell, Elon's wanting to launch a constellation of around 4500 satellites all in one orbit.

Space is big; there's lots of room.

Thank you guys for keeping this updated, I wouldn't have a clue about any of this. I do not follow the program, but they seem to be much more advanced and aggressive than NASA ever was.

Looking around on the interwebs, we're probably in for a break of around 3 weeks. I'll put the Iridium launch on 10/4 in the OP, but there's a chance that SES-11 will happen first. Time will tell.

Pretty cool shot from today's activities.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/...219953db_k.jpgOrbital Test Vehicle 5 Mission by SpaceX, on Flickr

Oh, this was the OTV mission? I'm glad that it panned out.

Super secret AF mission?

Not as secretive as the NROL-76 mission, where we didn't even know what was inside the fairing. :)

What was in the super secret AF mission? Me confused.

NROL-76 (in April) was a classified launch. We never got any information about what it is that they were launching, though people can guess that it was a LEO launch at least.

For this one (this morning), we know that it was the X-37 "space plane" going up, and we know that it was going to LEO. We just don't know what it's doing while it's up there.