Official SpaceX livestream on X: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ
Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links added. I've also fixed the dateful link. I think it might have been the & that was also messed up and may be resolved differently by different browser - anyway I hope it is fixed now.
Thanks. The date link was a bit wrong but seems to give the correct result: https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=2011&d=2024-02-23T04:11
I didn't notice the t=2011 argument and just appended T04:11 to the d argument. Seems to work ok for me.
OCISLY towed by Debra C is making 5.5 knots and currently about 60km (30 nautical miles) off the Mexican coast: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=368351350 (MARMAC 304 is the original registered name of OCISLY)
Support ship Go Beyond is about 4 hours out of Long Beach on its way to "LZ :)" https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9622655
Time for another Starlink mission. This one's an evening launch from Vandenburg. It will be the 19th flight of booster B1061.
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-02-23 04:11 | | --- | --- | | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-02-22 20:11 (PST) | | Mission | Starlink Group 7-15 | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA. | | Vehicle | Falcon 9 | | Booster | B1061 19th Flight | | Landing | ADSD Of Course I Still Love You at T+00:08:23 | | Inclination | 53° Why? | | Payload | 22 x Starlink V2 Mini deployed at T+01:02:17 | | Customer | SpaceX | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and delivery of payload to low earth orbit|
Webcasts
| Stream | Link | | --- | --- | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWd7EnE8MU | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikloLxNHxvU | SpaceX | https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-7-15 | SpaceFlight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE
Broadcast has started now.
SpaceX live streaming starts at 12:24 UTC here: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
The flight profile here https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2 does not say there will be a flip. But concludes with "Excitement Guaranteed". So anything could happen.
If it gets that far then I'd imagine that it would attempt to flip. Although I do think I recall something said about not doing a flip to ensure that there's nothing that needs to be recovered. This would mean they don't need recovery ships in the area.
At stage separation how horizontal is Starship? If there was no vertical moment then how significant would the gravity loss actually be?
AFAIK most of the gravity loss is in the first few second of a launch but I don't have any idea what you are losing by the time you get to stage separation.