Not much in the way of great shots this time, but cool that yet another booster has been reused. Looked really hot on the entry, but maybe it was just the lighting.

Anyway...boring as usual (and that's good).

Sucks they lost the downlink. :(

Just to close the loop, sat deploy was successful. I didn't watch. :)

T-5 minutes

Just got home from jury duty, perfect timing!

Beautiful blue-sky day. Too bad it's not RTLS - it'd be cool to get some views of it flipping around.

Not much for landing visuals this time except to see that it was pretty toasty!

https://s3.postimg.org/en1m04ctf/tum...9agdo1_400.png

Next up is the mysterious "Zuma" launch. We may not know much more about it, but it's on the clock.

Donger can start getting excited now.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017...-falcon-heavy/

SpaceX aims for late-December launch of Falcon Heavy
November 1, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt no alt

A major question for SpaceX’s end of year manifest appears to be gaining some answers as the company aims to debut its Falcon Heavy rocket in the late-December time period. With one launch left off LC-39A before the pad’s final conversion for the new rocket occurs, SpaceX is understood to be targeting mid-December for the Static Fire of Falcon Heavy followed by a late-December, No Earlier Than 29 December, launch of the heavy lift rocket.

(more at the link)

This would end up being the 20th launch of the year (assuming Zuma, CRS-13, and NEXT-4 are successful). That's insanely awesome. Steamroller. What a way to cap off 2017 (if it happens).

They may end up doing 2 static fires. I really hope those are streamed live. I will be tuned in!

Thunk I'm going to try to take my son to see the Heavy launch. Hope it's at night.

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There's a part of me that hopes it gets pushed into January. I'd consider making the trip down, but not over the holidays.

24-hour(ish) bump.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting November 15 launch of Zuma from Pad 39A in Florida.</p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/929487948289937408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Probably not gonna be the most interesting webcast since this is a classified mission, but maybe we'll get some cool fiery views of the first stage coming back down in the dark.

Did you see this about an explosion on during testing last week:

https://www.space.com/38712-spacex-r...explosion.html

Yep. After that article was written, SpaceX said it was a problem with the ground support equipment rather than the engine, so it shouldn't cause any problems aside from a few weeks of downtime while they repair the test bay.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017...ssue-manifest/