SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites Monday Night
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. (SpaceX PR) — SpaceX is targeting Monday, February 15 for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous window is at 10:59 p.m. EST, or 3:59 UTC on February 16.
The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this mission previously flew on five missions: Dragon’s 19th and 20th commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station, a Starlink mission, the SAOCOM 1B mission, and the NROL-108 mission. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean. You can watch the launch webcast live starting about 15 minutes before liftoff.
Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021. To see if Starlink is available in your area, visit starlink.com.
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The strip mining of Earth orbit continues.
Well, you used to say there is no money in LEO. Now it is strip mining, make up your mind.
Stop lying…all you do is harass me in hopes I will go away so you can continue advertising for spacex without someone exposing the NewSpace scam. Disgusting.
I have always stated quite clearly that ONLY satellites make money in space. In terms of Human Space Flight, which has always been my focus, LEO is, like Mars, a complete dead end. Like your brain.
We’ve crossed over from myth of NewSpace exploitation of LEO straight onto strip mining. Progress indeed.
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The spacex P.R. machine has of course not mentioned exactly how much money they save on reusing rocket stages: exactly how much it costs to turn around a falcon 1st stage compared to just dropping it in the ocean. If you think it is a tremendous savings you are deluded. 5 years ago this guy Conway was not far off and it was of course wishful thinking. It would have been far better for space exploration if spacex had gone out of business. Too bad.
And…”We’ve” not crossed anywhere except that you, as always, are a troll. Endlessly harassing me with your garbage.
Ha, do all E. E. Smith character personas have a group therapy session?
Targeted harassment…Doug Messier reads these comments.
You better stop.
That you seem to think Doug is going to side with you here indicates it’s not just space about which you are clueless.
Shorter “Richard Seaton” – who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?
Got something to say about space and not me? You are doing targeted harassment and Doug reads these comments.
I’m doing targeted responses. The “harassment” is all in your head.
I’m sure Doug does read these comments. It’s his site, after all.
Point of order sir.
In order to be made up, said mind must exist.
Your mind is a cesspool of Trumpist and Musk sycophant diseased lies.
Yes! Internet for everyone, not just the urban dwellers! But astronomers, 90% of whom are white and who overwhelmingly live in rich nations, are more interested in protecting their sky privileges then seeing the world lifted out of poverty.
Tell me, what is more likely to get someone a job – access to the Internet or knowledge of the distance to the nearest exoplanet?
It is so you can play video games and download cat videos while camping. Nobody in the pacific ocean needs low latency, nobody in Africa can afford a hundred dollars a month when they live on 10. Don’t you get it?
A convenience nowhere near justifying 100,000 pieces of junk polluting Earth orbit as the rush to cash in creates this slow motion disaster.
I don’t think this guy is camping.
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And people in Africa can use Starlink as village level backhaul. Leftist love telling other people what the need or don’t need in their life.
You are right, I think he is advertising.
Wow, I really thought one of those three seagulls sitting on the landing pad were going to get smeared by the 1st stage landing on top of them. But no stage to be seen?
Thought I saw a flicker of light and the seagulls took to wing but they settled right back again on the pad, and that was that.
Hrm…
SLS delenda est
supprime tuum stultiloquium!
The Latin doesn’t make you seem any smarter, Gary.
You stand for destroying NASA’s Space Launch System with every comment and that makes you a disgusting creep. The dog whistle shows even more how toxic you are. Richard Seaton is making comments here. Not that guy the spacex fan club excommunicated from The Cult of Musk. And you are a Trumpist also. What could be more sad and distasteful?
Your gang of cyberthugs are the worst thing that has ever happened to space exploration.
Anybody with a brain, and there have been several million over the years, visiting these forums and reading the NewSpace troll garbage loses interest in space and never comes back.
Yes, I do stand for destroying SLS. It’s a useless waste.
And that is not a “dog whistle,” it’s a flat-out declaration for all to see. If you hear “dog whistles” all the time, perhaps you should see an audiologist about your tinnitus. Or, if you are actually a dog – and you might be because, as everyone knows, on the Internet no one can tell you’re a dog – get someone to inoculate you against rabies.
Yes, it will be interesting to see what happened. But progress comes from learning from failures. Since this booster had been used on NASA missions I am sure they will take an interest it.
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It is going to be a mess; upwards of a hundred thousand of these smallsats in different constellations with thousands of dead ones hitting live ones making more dead ones as new ones are launched to replace the dead ones.
It never should have been allowed, pandering blatantly to un-needed convenience. Pure greed.
And this from spacenews: “I’m really struggling on the physics and economics” of satellite broadband, said Tim Bryan, chief executive of the NRTC, in a Feb. 4 call with reporters. He claimed there were “anecdotal reports” of people who signed up for Starlink beta but were having problems getting connections any faster than four megabits per second, but didn’t elaborate.
“Starlink’s performance is not theoretical or experimental,” SpaceX noted in its Feb. 3 FCC filing. The company said it had already demonstrated it could meet or exceed key performance tiers, including 100 megabits per second of data to customers and 20 megabits per second of data from them, as well latencies of 31 milliseconds or less.
Bryan said his group’s issue was how Starlink could scale up to serve larger numbers of customers. “My concern is mostly around the capacity not of one or two users, but what happens when you get to 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 thousand users,” he said.
“I have no doubt that the Starlink constellation could be successful in some areas, and in some cases, providing coverage over areas like the deep blue seas and those sorts of places,” he said. “I struggle to see how it’s going to reliably deliver 100-megabit service to the literally hundreds and thousands of customers in the census block groups that it bid for.”
How is it going to do it? It is not going to be able to do it.
I remember folks asking the same questions 30 years ago when the Internet was new, about how much speeds could be increased and if what we call wi-if would be practical. And then of course there were the environmentalists worrying about the impact of radio waves on humans and the environment.
Progress comes from technological iteration as the service develops and you are able to try out solutions.
“I struggle to see how it’s going to reliably deliver 100-megabit service to the literally hundreds and thousands of customers in the census block groups that it bid for.”
The fantasy world the Musk worshipers live in is not struggling at all.
Gary doesn’t live in rural community with zero adequate broadband options. Gary wants to hold back humanity on the basis of his fan fiction.
Gary, Gary, Gary,…..who is Gary? Is that like “Who is John Galt”?
It is a dog whistle used for years signaling danger danger danger to the Musk fan club. “hold back humanity on the basis of his fan fiction” Puh-leez.
Disgusting creeps.
Gary Church being one of the screen names used by this troll now posting as Richard Seaton. Well known to most already as the style is unmistakable.
Your obsessive trolling and harassment is what is unmistakable.
The NRTC is one of the extant “providers” of rural broadband that Starlink seems likely to supplant. Imagine my surprise that their CEO is trying to spread FUD about Starlink. Also Imagine my surprise that Gary cites the guy’s opinion as evidence to support his goofy Kessler Syndrome fantasies.
Nobody is surprised the dog whistle is being blown full blast and the Musk worshipers (and several multiple-pathological Trumpists like you) are dogpiling me with insults Goofy.
It’s a regular whistle, Gary, not a dog whistle.