Comments on: Since last night four more launches globally https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581577 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:40:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581577 Ah, did not see your top post at first.

Caching issue.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581576 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:37:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581576 “Initial indications showed Alpha’s upper stage reached 320 km in altitude. However, upon further assessment, the team learned the upper stage did not reach orbital velocity, and the stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared zone north of Antarctica.”

-https://fireflyspace.com/missions/alpha-flta006/

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581574 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:25:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581574 In reply to mkent.

mkent: Several sources had indicated a Russian Angara launch planned for Plesetsk yesterday, but it did not happen.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581573 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:24:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581573 In reply to D. Messier.

Yo All: Refresh your browser. As you were rushing to post comments noting the failure I was in the process of correcting this post. I have also posted a full post describing the failure.

]]> By: D. Messier https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581572 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:18:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581572 Nope. Firefly’s launch failed. Record now 2-2-2,

]]> By: mkent https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581569 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:09:06 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581569 ”Fourth, the American rocket startup Firefly successfully placed a Lockheed Martin demo payload into orbit…”

No, it didn’t. The stage separation anomaly prevented the second stage from reaching orbital velocity. It and the payload re-entered over the South Pacific.

”A scheduled launch by Russia of its Angara rocket on a classified military mission was apparently scrubbed…

What launch is this? I haven’t seen any indications of an Angara launch since mid-March.

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581563 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:50:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581563 The Firefly launch failed according to NSF. Dang.

]]> By: Boobah https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/since-last-night-four-more-launches-globally/#comment-1581560 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:37:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=113731#comment-1581560 That first paragraph should probably end with “launches globally” or “across the globe.”

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