Elon's Falcon 9 & Starlink:
Falcon 9 booster B1082 launches, performs a precision-guided hypersonic re-entry, and lands for the 10th time. After completing a Starlink mission with 27 satellites.
This is the 400th landing of the Falcon 9 booster series.
#Space #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starlink #Starship #ElonMusk
Elon's SpaceX Starship:
IFT-7.
Booster 14 stage separation, and boostback burn for RTLS (Return-To-Launch-Site).
Booster 14 successfully returned to launch tower OLM-1, and is planned to launch/land again for IFT-9 orbital velocity test flight.
Ship 33 was the first V2 Starship upper stage. But it lost control and was blown up just before the end of its burn.
#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT7 #IFT9
The Orbital Index Issue № 301:
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is targeting 2035-39 with two options: a sky crane or a new heavy-lift lander. Meanwhile, studies reveal 70% of meteorites come from just three asteroid collisions, and Saturn’s rings may vanish in 100M years. Plus, SpaceX's Transporter 12 launched 131 payloads! 🚀🌖🛰🌌📡🌍💫
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2025-01-15-Issue-301/
#SpaceNews #Space #Spaceflight #SpaceExploration #NASA #ESA #JAXA #ISRO #SpaceX #Moon #Mars
WASP-127b, an exoplanet in the WASP-127 system. With winds ten times faster than Neptune’s. Neptune has the fastest winds in the Sol System.
“Extreme supersonic 33 000 km/h winds: Astronomers discover planet with fastest jetstream ever measured”
“Winds move at nearly six times the speed at which the planet itself rotates”
@judgedread The pardoning of all 1,500+ of them was a real, Holy shit. This is real, moment for me.
As much as I had hoped I didn't expect it. Lesson learned. Don't set yourself up to be disappointed. Anything can happen.
Tech Lord Jeff Bezos uses his classic business manuever to crush the jew ULA.
Because Boeing/Lockheed/RocketDyne are so riddled with divershitty, that they could not develop their own 1st stage cryogenic rocket engines.
"Tech Lord Jeff Bezos uses his classic business manuever to crush the jew ULA."
Expendable ULA Vulcan on the left, reusable New Glenn on the right.