nortex97 said:

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Sierra Club garbage…



"Treated wastewater"=potable water.

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🚀 City of Brownsville Public Service Announcement

We're informing you of SpaceX Starship’s potential Fifth Flight Test on Sunday, October 13, with a launch window between 7 and 9 a.m., pending regulatory approval.

📲 Stay Informed with City Text Alerts!https://t.co/58TVgxmfgh pic.twitter.com/Tf4HQlZaXV

— City of Brownsville (@BTxRGV) October 10, 2024

IFT-5 Infographic!

Curious about the changes? Here are some:

S30:
- Upgraded TPS Heat Shield that adds an ablative layer beneath the tiles in most of the places.
- The Hexagonal Antennas on the nosecone were redesigned into a single big hexagonal antenna beneath the payload… pic.twitter.com/HsJguQO8cq

— Boca Bingo (@BingoBoca) October 10, 2024

Oh god. Its happening isn’t it 👀 here’s our 4K livestream that will start at T - 2 hours - https://t.co/Jwt7xZaW4W https://t.co/TYyotu7wCP

— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) October 11, 2024

Looks like Starship might fly on Sunday!

This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket.

We will try to catch it upon return to launch site using the Mechazilla arms like giant chopsticks (like Karate Kid)! https://t.co/8g7mLaTCRK

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2024

Malachi Constant said:

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EA's prep video

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Sea Speed said:

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I'm going to be on a ship and unable to stream.

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PJYoung said:

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Malachi Constant said:

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I don't know about television, but the launch will be covered on X from the official SpaceX account and there are probably 100 YouTubers that will livestream the launch.

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And there will be 1,000 fake streams with AI Elon Musk trying to sell crypto scams.

Use NasaSpaceflight or Everyday Astronaut

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RED AG 98 said:

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PJYoung said:

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Malachi Constant said:

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I don't know about television, but the launch will be covered on X from the official SpaceX account and there are probably 100 YouTubers that will livestream the launch.

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And there will be 1,000 fake streams with AI Elon Musk trying to sell crypto scams.

Use NasaSpaceflight or Everyday Astronaut

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I do this for the pregame but keep the official spacex x account on refresh. When it goes live it's soacex official on the big screen and nsf on the secondary.

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"The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) will begin executing a series of novel maneuvers, called aerobraking, to change its orbit around Earth and safely dispose of its service module components in accordance with recognized standards for space debris mitigation," the Space Force said.

Aerobraking uses the drag of Earth's atmosphere to slow a spacecraft and allow it to move into a lower orbit without relying solely on firing its propulsion engines, in essence making a series of orbits that look like a spiral to achieve a lower orbit. (Think about those spiral wishing wells that used to populate shopping mall corridors, where a coin put on the top surface spirals its way down into a small hole and plonks into a collection box.)

The maneuver "enables the spacecraft to change orbits while expending minimal fuel," the Space Force release said.

The X-37B OTV-7 was launched into highly elliptical orbit (HEO) on Dec. 28, 2023 to conduct a number of tests, described by the Space Force at the time as including "operating the reusable spaceplane in new orbital regimes, experimenting with future space domain awareness technologies, and investigating the radiation effects on materials provided by NASA." Earlier missions took place in low Earth orbit (LEO).

"Once the aerobrake maneuver is complete, the X-37B will resume its test and experimentation objectives until they are accomplished," the Space Force said.

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NASA has used aerobraking at Mars to reshape the orbits of its scientific probes surveying the red planet. In 2014, the European Space Agency executed a series of aerobraking maneuvers at Venus with its Venus Express spacecraft. Precise navigation is crucial for aerobrakingcoming in too high won't produce enough air resistance to bleed off velocity, while dipping too low could cause the spacecraft to reenter the atmosphere.

The Space Force said it is leveraging experience from civilian science missions to carry out the X-37B's aerobraking maneuvers.
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In February, a sleuthing satellite tracking hobbyist spotted the X-37B in orbit by observing sunlight reflected off of the spacecraft as it flew thousands of miles above Earth. Follow-up detections confirmed the discovery, allowing amateur observers to estimate that the X-37B was flying in a highly elliptical orbit ranging between roughly 300 and 38,600 miles in altitude (186-by-23,985 miles). The orbit was inclined 59.1 degrees to the equator.

On its previous missions, the X-37B was confined to low-Earth orbit a few hundred miles above the planet. When it became apparent that the latest mission was cruising at a significantly higher altitude, analysts and space enthusiasts speculated on what the secret spaceplane was doing and how it would come back to Earth. A direct reentry into the atmosphere from the spaceplane's elliptical orbit would expose the craft's heat shield to hotter temperatures than any of its previous returns.

Now, we have an answer to the latter question.

As for what it's doing up there, the Space Force said the spaceplane on this mission has "conducted radiation effect experiments and has been testing space domain awareness technologies in a highly elliptical orbit." The orbit brings the X-37B through the Van Allen radiation belts and crosses several orbital regimes populated by US and foreign communications, navigation, and surveillance satellites.
Military officials have said previous X-37B flights have tested a Hall-effect ion thruster and tested other experimental space technologies without elaborating on their details. X-37Bs have also secretly deployed small military satellites in orbit.

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Starship's fifth flight is now part of the FAA ATC Planning Advisory

Reminder: this is a PLANNING advisory for ATC, it is NOT any confirmation of anything (other than they're planning for it I guess?) pic.twitter.com/PbJK8C0w2K

— Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) (@Alexphysics13) October 12, 2024

Premium said:

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So launching in 20 hours and no official approval?

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Looking through the document, this process was finished in the last couple of days with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service ESA Interagency Cooperation Division signing off on the modified plan for Flight 5.

— Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) (@Alexphysics13) October 12, 2024

@efraser77 Salam, you can read it here: https://t.co/kdUF2a19ys Have a good day. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) October 12, 2024

How will @SpaceX catch Starship's Super Heavy booster with a giant robotic tower? Here's my full video giving you a rundown on how exactly they plan to do this daring catch maneuver!!! #IFT5 pic.twitter.com/wNi1Vlw89w

— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) October 11, 2024

FAA license for Starship Flight 5:https://t.co/lRC3NXhsMZ pic.twitter.com/3EPuG4t5HH

— Chris Bergin - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) October 12, 2024

Statement of the FAA on the license: pic.twitter.com/HDbHFQdjHE

— Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) October 12, 2024

The @FAANews confirms the go-ahead for flight 6 as well:@NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/NY2LSTs7u0

— Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) October 12, 2024