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rCLStarship is orbitalrCY

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success

rCLStarship lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today at 8:48 a.m. EDT (1248 GMT; 7:48 a.m. local Texas time), kicking off its
14th test flight to date.rCY

rCLFlight 14 is the third Starship launch to feature Version 3 of the
vehicle, a relatively mature iteration that's capable of deploying
satellites and reaching the moon and Mars, among other tasks.rCY

rCLEverything went according to plan initially. Super Heavy did what it
was supposed to do, coming back down to Earth for a controlled
splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff. It appeared to experience several engine shutdowns during flight, but
nothing serious enough to affect the landing. Meanwhile, Ship continued
on its upward ascent, inserting into low Earth orbit (LEO) about a
half-hour into the flight.rCY

rCLBut SpaceX wasn't content with just getting to LEO. Ship carried 26 of
the company's next-gen Starlink V3 broadband satellites, which it
successfully deployed over a 30-minute stretch starting at about T+34
minutes. These are the first members of a megaconstellation that will eventually consist of about 100,000 satellites, according to Musk. (Ship deployed V3 Starlinks on Flight 13 in July, but they were on a
suborbital trajectory and soon fell back to Earth.)rCY

Excellent, just excellent. It is so nice to see USA Engineers and
Scientists succeed after some extremely hard work.

Lynn

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On 9/28/26 22:40, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLStarship is orbitalrCY

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These are the first members of a megaconstellation that will

eventually consist of about 100,000 satellites, according to Musk.

I wonder if any study has been given to having 100,000 of these birds orbiting. It will definitely mess up all kinds of astronomy. Astronomers complained about the old Soviet Molniya satellites streaking up their pictures. They have/had a very eccentric orbit that went way high over
the northern polar regions and absolutely screamed over the south pole.
With 100k of the Starlinks zipping around, it will be very difficult to
get a clear shot of the night sky at many useful frequencies.

Oh, and Musk is cordially invited to intercourse himself for what he did
to the government e.g. NIH, HHS, DOD.
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In article <119fqes$32qpq$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote: >I wonder if any study has been given to having 100,000 of these birds >orbiting. It will definitely mess up all kinds of astronomy. Astronomers >complained about the old Soviet Molniya satellites streaking up their >pictures. They have/had a very eccentric orbit that went way high over

the northern polar regions and absolutely screamed over the south pole.
With 100k of the Starlinks zipping around, it will be very difficult to
get a clear shot of the night sky at many useful frequencies.

Yes, the first generation Starlinks had serious issues in that regard, and
so a lot of work has been done to reduce reflectivity on the newer
generations. They are still visible and still an annoyance to astronomy
but not to the extent of the earlier ones. So yes, a bunch of studies have been done on both sides or the argument.

Oh, and Musk is cordially invited to intercourse himself for what he did
to the government e.g. NIH, HHS, DOD.

On that point I thoroughly agree but it's also not really relevant to the thread. It is interesting that his guys came into a lot of agencies
totally clueless but assuming they knew everything... however, the ones that came into NASA were just as clueless but pretty quickly realized it. So NASA escaped a lot of the damage.
--scott
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On 9/28/26 22:40, Lynn McGuire wrote:

rCLStarship is orbitalrCY

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex- starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success

rCLStarship lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today at 8:48 a.m. EDT (1248 GMT; 7:48 a.m. local Texas time), kicking off its
14th test flight to date.rCY

rCLFlight 14 is the third Starship launch to feature Version 3 of the vehicle, a relatively mature iteration that's capable of deploying satellites and reaching the moon and Mars, among other tasks.rCY

rCLEverything went according to plan initially. Super Heavy did what it
was supposed to do, coming back down to Earth for a controlled
splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff. It appeared to experience several engine shutdowns during flight, but
nothing serious enough to affect the landing. Meanwhile, Ship continued
on its upward ascent, inserting into low Earth orbit (LEO) about a half- hour into the flight.rCY

rCLBut SpaceX wasn't content with just getting to LEO. Ship carried 26 of the company's next-gen Starlink V3 broadband satellites, which it successfully deployed over a 30-minute stretch starting at about T+34 minutes. These are the first members of a megaconstellation that will eventually consist of about 100,000 satellites, according to Musk. (Ship deployed V3 Starlinks on Flight 13 in July, but they were on a
suborbital trajectory and soon fell back to Earth.)rCY

Excellent, just excellent.-a It is so nice to see USA Engineers and Scientists succeed after some extremely hard work.

Lynn

Well you have to have that mega-constellation to obscure astronomical observations and to enforce the dictates of the Tech
overlords. Musk is rather careless with his materials and the
returning Ship blew up it seems. Explosive disassembly once more.

Musk is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths
in needy places when DOGE took down the USAID. They might have
grown up to be consumers. Unlikely though to be Mars Colonists.

bliss
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