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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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