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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by Melting_Harps on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:17PM (#23411230)
> Today is the 7th launch of v1 satellites. SpaceX is hoping to do more than two launches per month but haven't reached that pace yet

Isn't this the 8th? Jesse the Engineer said it was, too. The stage 1 is also on its 5th mission, so rad!

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by modeless on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:19PM (#23411244)
The "first" launch was v0.9 satellites. There was also an earlier launch of prototype satellites. Numbering of Starlink launches is a little confused as a result.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by Melting_Harps on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:31PM (#23411332)
Yeah, Tintin 1/2, so is it 7th of 14 or 8th?

Edit: stage 1 recovery success, and that was perhaps the clearest image of it landing I have ever seen and I've been watching since 2015! Also, I miss the shots of LOX images in zero G they used to do back then.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by JshWright on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:40PM (#23411379)
No, Tintin 1 and 2 were even earlier prototypes that piggybacked on the Paz launch.

There was also a full 60 satellite stack of v0.9 satellites that aren't counted towards the "production" constellation.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by Melting_Harps on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:47PM (#23411419)
Ah, so that's what makes it 7th launch of 14 then?

Now I remember this launch last year around this time, and some of them were not able to maintain their orbit, but weren't the majority of them operational?

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