Comments on: SpaceX completes Starlink/BlackSky Falcon 9th launch https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-starlink-blacksky-falcon-9th-launch/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:12:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-starlink-blacksky-falcon-9th-launch/#comment-1249322 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:12:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80975#comment-1249322 Blair Ivey,
I noticed that the term “flight proven” lasted only a couple of years.

]]> By: markedup2 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-starlink-blacksky-falcon-9th-launch/#comment-1249020 Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:49:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80975#comment-1249020 I hope they will be deployed over me. Something has changed and Starlink performance has been bad this week (without snow). It’s not only that I’m noticing, since I’m downloading giant installers to get some VM clusters running; that would be just bandwidth (and, really, 5MBytes/s is not that bad – but 50KBs last night? Ugh. “docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar” is contraindicated). Connections are dropping, too. First world problem.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-starlink-blacksky-falcon-9th-launch/#comment-1248676 Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:40:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80975#comment-1248676 ” The fairings were new, but were expected to be recovered and reused.”

Compare and contrast the tone of this sentence, where ‘new’ items are disdained, with the rocket business up until, oh, very recently.

[I understand the intent; just amused by the reality the sentence reflects.]

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