Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
#SpaceX will attempt its first Starship launch tomorrow morning at Boca Chica TX. The webcast begins at 7:15 AM EDT with the launch window opening at 8:00 AM EDT.
If it works, it will be the most powerful rocket launched in history.
It's likely the countdown will be delayed because this is the first attempt, but you'll want to keep the YouTube livestream open throughout the day.
#SpaceCoast My "pool" coverage this afternoon of the #SpaceX #Starlink launch, as seen from Lane #1 of the Cocoa Beach Aquatic Center.
https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithfl/videos/763035075219059/
#SpaceCoast We have a #SpaceX #Starlink launch this afternoon.
"SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, March 29 at 4:01 p.m. ET (20:01 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. If needed, there are additional launch opportunities the same day at 5:43 p.m. ET (21:43 UTC) and 7:22 p.m. (23:22 UTC)."
#SpaceCoast #Space From the December 12, 2002 #FloridaToday:
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From the December 12, 2002 Florida Today ...
"A dot.com tycoon has picked Cape Canaveral as a launch site for a new breed of rockets that could lift half-ton satellites for about half the current market price, state government officials said Thursday.
"Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or #SpaceX, plans to launch its proposed Falcon rocket from a state-owned pad at a Space Launch Complex 46 ..."
#SpaceCoast #Space Photos of this morning's #SpaceX #Starlink launch as seen from north Merritt Island.
#SpaceCoast #Space This morning's #SpaceX #Starlink launch as seen from north Merritt Island. I lost it for a bit in the glare.
https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithfl/videos/564289148830582/
#SpaceCoast #Space We have a #SpaceX #Starlink launch scheduled for the Cape at 11:43 AM EDT/ 8:43 AM PDT. Watch live at the link. Typically SpaceX starts a Starlink webcast five minutes before T-0.
#SpaceCoast I thought I heard a rumble this morning ... #SpaceX confirms a static test fire, will launch Starlink satellites from LC-40 at the Cape tomorrow morning at 11:33 AM EDT.
The vehicle used today by #SpaceX to transport Falcon 9 boosters began life as the Orbiter Transportation System. It was built in 1983 by an Italian company called Cometto to transport the Shuttle orbiter at Vandenberg (CA) AFB, where #NASA intended to have a second Shuttle launch site. It was later transferred to #KSC. After the Shuttle program ended, NASA sold it to SpaceX.
Here are Nov 28, 1984 articles from the Lompoc Record and Santa Maria Times reporting on the OTS delivery.
#SpaceCoast Still photos with my smartphone of the #SpaceX launch this evening from Cape Canaveral.
#SpaceCoast Amateur video with my smartphone of the #SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral. Since it's sunset, you'll get a pretty good view of the stages separating and then jettison of the fairings. Those are the four dots at the end -- first stage returning to land on the drone ship, fairings falling to the sea, upper stage racing away to deploy the satellites.
https://www.facebook.com/100000747763996/videos/1170409440341707/
#SpaceCoast #SpaceX still targeting 7:38 PM EDT / 4:38 PM PDT for the SES satellites launch from Cape Canaveral. The webcast is live.
#SpaceCoast We have a #SpaceX launch scheduled for this evening from Cape Canaveral at 7:38 PM EDT/4:38 PM PDT. The webcast starts about 15 minutes earlier.
Amateur video of the #SpaceX cargo Dragon launch as seen from north Merritt Island.
https://www.facebook.com/100000747763996/videos/1867996110238010/
You can also watch the #SpaceX livestream (pretty much the same thing) at:
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022