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Still capped: Zelenskyy says Ukraine's interceptor drones drop their Starshield link above 161 km/h along the front, so jet Shaheds slip through. @SpaceX told Kyiv it's a technical issue. A similar cap in October was lifted Oct 24.
Starlink coverage: spacecyborg.com/topics/starl…
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Why a caught ship matters to @SpaceX (SPCX) holders: it's its own top launch customer. Of 476 t sent to orbit in Q3, 358 t (75%) were its own payloads, mostly Starlink (Yahoo Finance). Reuse cuts Starlink costs.
Run the numbers: spacecyborg.com/generational…
Not financial advice.
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SpaceCyborg.com retweeted
ULA propulsion console operators here at the Launch Control Center report that the Vulcan and Centaur V upper stages are fueled with cryogenic propellant and topping modes are engaged, giving us a 1.99-million-pound (903,500-kg) rocket for launch at 12:11 p.m. EST (1711 UTC) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. bit.ly/vulcan_leo1
ALT A large United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket stands vertically on the launchpad, with clear blue sky in the background. The rocket is branded with Amazon's Project Kuiper logo. A tall metal structure and support tower are adjacent to the rocket. Steam or vapor is visible around the base.
Earth has a second moon, for now. 2026 QQ8, a ~1-2 m asteroid, was captured by Earth's gravity around April, spotted from Hungary on Aug 19 and confirmed natural by the Minor Planet Center on Oct 29. It should slip free around year-end; next close return: 2058.
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SpaceCyborg.com retweeted
The final phase of fueling has begun with liquid hydrogen loading into the LEO-optimized Centaur V upper stage at Space Launch Complex-41. We have a green board with no issues being addressed today by the ULA launch team as we continue to target liftoff for 12:11 p.m. EST (1711 UTC). bit.ly/vulcan_leo1
Canada's Starlink rival is now a political story: PM Mark Carney asked the ethics commissioner for a conflict screen covering @Telesat and its CEO, a close friend. Telesat holds a C$2.3B Arctic defence deal and owes C$2.4B of GEO debt on Dec 6.
Numbers: spacecyborg.com/news/telesat…
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NASA's Artemis Moon lander is a Starship variant. A ship that survived 14 orbits and flew home to the tower is the reuse that makes cheap refueling flights, and a real Moon cadence, plausible.
Artemis plan, explained: spacecyborg.com/news/artemis…
Congrats to @elonmusk and the @SpaceX team! It was almost magic..Making more believers by the day....one step closer to 🌖🇺🇸
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Power is the new bottleneck in orbit. Paris startup Gama raised a €15M seed to build Wing, a deployable solar array, on a 100 MW/yr line in Ivry-sur-Seine. Target: ~$10/W and 6-month lead times. First demo unit, for ex-Starlink engineers' Eclipse Space: summer 2027.
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SpaceCyborg.com retweeted
Good morning from Vulcan launch control at Cape Canaveral where our live mission blog has started. This is your official source for play-by-play updates throughout the countdown and flight of Vulcan's first heavy-lift mission for Amazon Leo.
The launch team just received a GO to begin fueling operations and today's countdown is progressing smoothly towards a planned launch at 12:11 p.m. EST (1711 UTC). bit.ly/vulcan_leo1
Next up for Falcon 9: @SpaceX targets USSF-317, a classified @USSpaceForce mission, from Vandenberg on Tue Nov 17 at 7:14pm PT (04:14 CET Wed). Booster B1100 flies for the 11th time after NROL-105, USSF-385 and 8 Starlink missions.
Launch calendar: spacecyborg.com/upcoming-roc…
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SpaceCyborg.com retweeted
On Friday, November 13, Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas on its 15th flight.
On Saturday, November 14, Starship returned to Starbase, Texas, and changed everything → spacex.com/launches/starship…
Crash-site investigation: @esa's Hera is now flying 25-30 km from Didymos and Dimorphos, the moonlet NASA's DART hit in 2022, cutting its orbit by ~33 min. Next month it moves in to ~20 km. First detailed images: Nov 25.
Background: spacecyborg.com/news/esa-her…
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Three booster catches, and now a ship. With Flight 15, both halves of Starship have come home to the tower. Hardware that lands is hardware that flies again.
Run the numbers: spacecyborg.com/generational…
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Third try today: @ulalaunch's Vulcan targets 18:11 CET with 40 @AmazonLeo satellites, its first flight in 9 months. It's the first of 38 Vulcans Amazon bought; ~400 Leo sats are up vs a 3,200+ plan. Starlink's rival needs cadence.
Full rundown: spacecyborg.com/news/ula-vul…
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Ship caught on a Saturday, with markets shut. @SpaceX (SPCX) last closed at $139.11, ~3% over its $135 IPO (Yahoo Finance). Monday is the first session to price both a caught ship and a lost booster.
Run the numbers: spacecyborg.com/generational…
Not financial advice.
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Look up tonight: Mars passes ~1.2° from Jupiter in Leo, about a finger-width at arm's length. Closest at 03:04 CET Nov 16; best views high in the SE before dawn, bright Regulus nearby.
In reality they're ~592 million km apart. Next pairing this close: July 2029.
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The belly-flop, the landing burn, then the chopsticks close. A ship caught instead of expended is hardware that doesn't have to be rebuilt for the next flight.
Guide: spacecyborg.com/how-to-inves…
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Flight 15 math: 26 @Starlink V3 sats at ~1 Tbps of designed downlink each = ~26 Tbps added in one launch. A full Starship load is up to 60 (~60 Tbps), per @SpaceX's IPO prospectus.
And now the ship comes back.
Run the numbers: spacecyborg.com/generational…
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