Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpaceįlorida-based intercity operator Brightline adopted Starlink on its trains earlier in 2023, the first passenger rail service in the world to do so. She was also responsible for completing the 30th Falcon 9 flight of 2023 and the hundredth consecutive successful booster landing since SpaceX’s last landing failure, more than two years ago.ī1076 launches on her most recent flight in May. This impressive tempo of flights saw B1076 execute four drone-ship landings and a single on-point touchdown at the Cape’s Landing Zone (LZ)-1. More recently, she lifted 40 broadband satellites uphill for London, England’s OneWeb in the second week of January, followed by the first 21-strong batch of Starlink V2 Mini birds in late February, the heavyweight Intelsat 40e geostationary communications satellite-co-manifested with NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) payload- in early April and a second V2 Mini load in the third week of May.
Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpaceĮarmarked to fly tonight’s mission is B1076, the first Falcon 9 booster to make a fifth launch in 2023, having entered service last November to deliver the CRS-26 Cargo Dragon for a six-week berth at the International Space Station (ISS). “Additionally, a weak surface boundary sagging south into Southern Georgia is likely to allow further pooling of moisture across Central and Northern Florida by Sunday, resulting in somewhat higher coverage of showers and storms locally.”ī1076 soars skyward in early April, carrying the Intelsat 40e geostationary communications satellite and NASA’s co-manifested TEMPO payload.
“This will strengthen and deepen the offshore flow locally and keep the sea-breeze pinned near the coast, enhancing the shower and storm threat during the late afternoon and early evening hours this weekend,” the 45th added. expected to suppress the Atlantic surface ridge-axis. “Abnormally high moisture content throughout the atmospheric column will continue through the weekend,” noted the 45th Weather Squadron at Patrick Space Force Base in its L-1 update, issued Friday, with an incoming trough passing through the Eastern U.S. That broad swathe of T-0 points is just as well, for the weather picture appears rather dicey over the weekend.
B1076 launches 40 broadband internet satellites for London, England-based OneWeb in January.
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