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#1 2017-12-23 21:35:21
- louis
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Falcon 9 over LA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LQWmh8UyX4
Pretty dramatic pics. Apparently Falcon 9 over LA.
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#2 2017-12-24 22:11:27
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Re: Falcon 9 over LA?
I have seen the ghostly air flow and engines as in the airflow chamber model tests on a number of news sites....
Let it not be said Elon Musk doesn't know how to grab people's attention. The SpaceX founder captured much of the Southwest portion of the country's attention by accident on Friday night when his company launched its Falcon 9. Be Amazed! SpaceX's Spectacular Iridium-4 Launch in Photos
Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California. The rocket was carrying 10 low-orbit satellites from Iridium Communications. The launch went exactly as planned.
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#3 2026-08-25 08:02:06
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Re: Falcon 9 over LA?
This topic has been sitting around since 2017. It was created by louis, and this post is a reminder of Louis' many contributions to this forum over a number of years. Louis had a remarkable ability to elicit terrific writing by other members, by feigning inability to understand basic physics.
This post is about the 100th Falcon 9 launch of 2026, and the 37th successful flight of one of the Falcon 9 boosters...
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SpaceX sets rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year (video)
Mike Wall
Tue, August 25, 2026 at 7:20 AM EDTSpaceX sets rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year (video)
A bright arc streaks through the night sky.Credit: SpaceX
Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one was definitely worth staying up for.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Aug. 25), at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT).
It was the 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the record-breaking 37th mission for this rocket's first stage, a booster designated B1067.
A bright arc streaks through the night skySpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Tuesday morning (Aug. 25), on its 100th Falcon 9 flight of the year. | Credit: SpaceX
The Falcon 9 is by far the busiest rocket in operation today. Last year, it flew 165 missions — more than all of the world's other orbital rockets combined. And all 165 of those flights were fully successful.
Extensive first-stage reuse is the Falcon 9's secret sauce, making it cheaper and more efficient to fly than its competitors. Those competitors are racing to catch up, however, and some are making strides. In the past six weeks, for example, two different Chinese rockets aced landings during orbital missions.
But neither one of those newcomers has made it back to the pad for a second flight. SpaceX, meanwhile, has six Falcon 9 boosters with at least 30 flights under their belts, led by B1067's 36. (The others are B1077 and B1078 with 30, B1069 with 32, B1063 with 34 and B1071 with 35).
And SpaceX plans to take reuse to even higher levels. The company's next-gen megarocket, Starship, is designed to be completely and rapidly reusable, with each vehicle capable of flying multiple times per day, according to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. (The Falcon 9 and its cousin the Falcon Heavy are only partially reusable; they have expendable upper stages.)
Previous Booster B1067 launches
CRS-22 | Crew-3 | Turksat 5B | Crew-4 | CRS-25 | Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G | O3B mPOWER | PSN SATRIA | Telkomsat Marah Putih 2 | Galileo L13 | Koreasat-6A | 25 Starlink missions
After launch, B1067 returned to Earth for recovery and yet more reuse. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the booster landed on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas," which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, continued on to deliver its 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, deploying them there 61.5 minutes after launch.
Tuesday's liftoff was the 77th of 2026 devoted to building out Starlink, by far the largest satellite constellation ever assembled. It currently consists of more than 11,000 operational spacecraft, and that number is growing all the time.
The Falcon 9 isn't the only SpaceX rocket to have flown this year. The company has also launched one Falcon Heavy mission and two suborbital Starship test flights. Starship will try to go orbital for the first time on its next liftoff, which is expected in early to mid-September.
The article above appeared on Yahoo but I could not find a link to this specific article.
Yahoo also reported upon a fanciful European vision of a fully re-usable rocket system that looks a lot like Space Shuttle, but I don't think anything will come of it. The team has been working on this for 20 years and don't have anything but paper to show.
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#4 2026-08-25 09:33:53
- Calliban
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Re: Falcon 9 over LA?
Did you ever find out what happened to Louis? His posts stopped all of a sudden.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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