Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 12 Complete

SCANALYZER The Happening World
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Highlights:

  • Review of mission profile new to V3

  • Numerous SpaceX reveals during countdowns Thursday and Friday

  • Lost one booster engine on ascent

  • Multiple engine failures on boostback and boostback aborted

  • Booster did attempt landing burns far out in the Gulf

  • One vacuum engine failed very early on Ship–insertion burn ran long to compensate

  • SpaceX IPO timeline discussion (lead-in to sponsor)

  • Starlink payload simulators deployment smooth and fast.

  • Final two deployments were active satellites with cameras and lights and Starlink V3 test hardware

  • Ship engine relight skipped due to margninal orbital insertion

  • Extra tile samples on lee of flap all survived.

  • Re-entry manuevers to apply extra stress executed successfully

  • No apparent re-entry problems

  • Nailed the flip, two-engine landing burn, and soft splashdown.

  • Expected fireball after toppling into the ocean. (:

  • SpaceX reported no heat shield failures

  • Falcon 9: Starlink 17-42, Starlink 10-31

  • SpaceX soon to pass launch total history of all of the rest of the world combined

  • Stoke Space Zenith engine testing and other report

  • Psyche mission passes Mars in slingshot maneuver, photos captured

  • Vast Space new satellite bus product

  • ESA Vega-C SMILE space weather mission

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We really are becoming a Hummingbird society. The heaviest rocket ever launched into space, and the coverage in the mainstream media was … minimal.

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Well, Elon bad, so have to ignore. <grunt, scratch>

Sad.

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Maybe it’s time to use an accurate name for the fifth column “legacy” “media”. They are after all neither mainstream nor a medium. They’re more a colluding, side stream neo-Marxist propaganda organization. Maybe we should have a naming contest? My fist passes: “side stream (or, maybe 'bottom) feeders”; “sludge stream poseurs or hoseurs”. There must be more - it’s a target rich concept.

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It is hard to count the ways in which the formerly “mainstream” Western media are underperforming. While they generally downplayed the Starship launch, they seem to have completely ignored China’s launch of another batch of astronauts to the Chinese Space Station.

China successfully launches Shenzhou-23 manned spacecraft to Chinese space station - Global Times

Civilizational Confidence: while US politicians insisted on pretending the largely US-funded space station is the “International Space Station”, China is quite happy to have a Chinese Space Station – damn proud of it, in fact! This tentativeness on the part of our politicians suggests the rot in the West goes much deeper than merely underperforming media denizens.

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