Routine night launch, so no awesome views of Earth
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Category Archives: fun & curios
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 KPLO SKorean lunar-orbiter)
August 4, 2022 – 5:43 pm
Six launches today_____ This is a very cool but unusual mission (Caution: light nerd-level flight mechanics without 3 and 4-body-problem math) • Flight-path overview • Mission details
It’s baa-aack
August 3, 2022 – 3:40 pm
The Beginning Live Wellp, looks like I’m back in 2021 mode, spending 1-2 hrs/day on-line watching Starbase and Iceland’s volcano. I really missed the volcano
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink)
July 24, 2022 – 11:05 am
Routine Falcon9 launch and landing with excellent vids and visibility on a lazy, kick-back Sunday
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg SFB)
July 22, 2022 – 10:59 am
Routine with good vids of vehicle rising through the vandenfog, separation events, and on-board landing view Tracking cam footage from today’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink pic.twitter.com/771gLqbm9t — SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 22, 2022
Verified
July 19, 2022 – 11:54 am
True, I just tried it (Caution: spew warning) _____ SondraK Google Maps sabotaged it. We’ll see how this evolves.
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Dragon ISS Resupply)
July 14, 2022 – 6:40 pm
Routine success with good vids Uninterrupted landing vid Special Interest: • T+2:30 Separation, Stg-1 flip maneuver and boost-back burn • T+5:30 As Stg-1 nears its entry burn, keep an occasional eye on the speed/altitude gauges (lower-left of screen). It speeds up due to gravity and low drag in the thin atmosphere at the edge of [...]
Writer’s Block
July 12, 2022 – 10:19 pm
Sorry for the lack of posting, lately. Until the spirit moves me to satire rather than anger, here’s a quick fix (What? Nah, unlikely she was trying to say Bogardus. The Tin Star ’57, Neville Brand) _____ • Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg SFB)
July 10, 2022 – 9:37 pm
Successful mission with cool vid rising through the fog (Hey, it’s Vandenberg, Wind’n Fog AFB back in my day*) _____ * Launching in the fog was unsettling, if you were on the near-fallback recovery crew; ’cause as the rocket climbed and pitched downrange, the engines pointed toward you. It got really loud and sounded like [...]
