SpaceX launching Starlink satellites live now!

You do realize you're a mod on a fucking conspiracy website???

When can I get some 1gbps from Starlink?

This is more than just an issue of visual access to space; this program and others added to the already 500,000 pieces of space debris may well become a limiting factor for future (safe, efficient) human and payload launches. So short-sighted!

You guys do realize this is a military operation and will eventually be used to hunt down and kill people - probably YOU once you wake up and try to warn others

No it isn't. It is a private company launching their own internet communications satellites with their own rocket.

Balloons don't break the sound barrier. I've tracked these boosters breaking the sound barrier prior to landing.

At 6:54 after launch in my video (time code of 7:29 in the youtube video) the rocket was descending and translating at a rate of about 1.13 degrees per second as tracked by my telescope which logged the data:
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At launch the booster was about 21 pixels wide at a distance of 18.69 km from the pad. That's an angular size of 0.015941 degrees. At 7:29, it was 17.7 pixels wide. That's an angular size of about 0.013 degrees. That gives us a slant range of about 22.2 km from the telescope to the rocket at that point. An apparent angular motion of 1.12 degrees per second corresponds to a velocity of about 437 m/s. That's just in motion within the plane of my field of view, but that's above mach 1! So no, it's not a fucking balloon you idiot.

fake as fuck. the earth is flat.

It's not BS. It's a fact. Just like it's a fact that the rocket landings they perform are real. Today's failed, but there are plenty of other successes they've had in past launches, even though you refuse to believe it.

And no, it's not a fucking balloon either.


What are you even doing on my thread if you won't accept basic facts?

You're right bro - my bad. SpaceX is a totally legit government contractor like all the other ones. Rockets can land backwards with little wings on them and steel buildings can collapse at freefall speed. I'm sorry for ever doubting basic facts.

No it isn't. It is a private company launching their own internet communications satellites with their own rocket.

Launch in 1 minute!

UFO on the left @ T+3:46-56

how come no one saw that?

bump for astro, it was right after the faring ejection but the trajectory and the lack of two pieces makes me call it as a UFO. Looked too low to be LEO as well.

So, top speed is really 16876.442 mph ?!

Is there another tesla strapped to this rocket? Cause if there i nominate you to be strapped in it. Your linky stinky btw

fake as fuck. the earth is flat.

fake as fuck. the earth is flat.

More ice sliding around the turbopump exhaust manifold. Didn't look enough like a mouse this time for the conspiracy theorists to latch onto it though. They'll deliberately ignore it this time since it destroys their narrative.

First stage landed in the drink ?

First stage landed in the drink ?

Missed the deck (to camera right ,look for the steam wafting over the deck from the right of the view)); but (I understand)it's programmed to miss by a safe margin if there's something off on the landing.

No biggie they said it: "remained intact so they may be able to retrieve it from the surface. And inserting the satellites in the correct orbit is the primary mission; recovering the first stage is a cost cutting measure.

Launch in 1 minute!