Starlink Group 7-15 launch bulletin 2024-02-22/23

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

NextSpaceflight page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Interesting note: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760882381148623202#m

One of the nine Merlin engines powering tonight's first stage is our flight leader, powering its 22nd mission to Earth orbit

I didn't know that the engine flight leader numbers were higher than the booster flight leaders. I wonder how this occurred?

I assumed that they swapped out engines only when they needed refurbishment, and that the engines would always have fewer flights than the boosters. I guess some older engines have been reinstalled in younger boosters?

few@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

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)

few@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Support ship Go Beyond is about 4 hours out of Long Beach on its way to "LZ :)" https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9622655

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Liftoff!

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

https://nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1760871391728120277#m

Starting propellant load for tonight's Falcon 9 launch of 22 @Starlink satellites from California. Rocket and weather are currently go for launch

Feb 23, 2024 · 3:37 AM UTC

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
LZ Landing Zone
MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
OCISLY Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic landing barge ship
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 18 acronyms.

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Thanks for posting this thread! It looks great!

Spaceflight Now has a livestream link too now, which you could add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

You might want to adjust the dateful link, as it seems to be pointing to 23:11 on Thursday, rather than 04:11 on Friday.

few@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Seems to work ok for me.

Huh, that's odd. This is what I see:

Also, if you could add the Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links to the table in the main post, that would be great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHTtpdEoTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJ2qEwoxkE

Thanks again for helping out with this thread!

few@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

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.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

M-vac shutdown.