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Still taken from video on dragon cargo approach today 8/12/2020.
There is no truth in the rumour that as soon as the hatch was opened, the crew grabbed all the M&M's.
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SpaceX Will make a second test flight attempt with their Starship SN8. Yesterday's attempt was aborted with 1.5seconds before full ignition. It was trying to fire but was aborted, the second link (Space.com) shows the sequence.
Launch window is from 9am CST to 5pm CST. Adjust for your time zone accordingly. The aborted launch was at 4:35pm CST and plans are for approximately the same time, the SpaceX site had a 4:30pm CST try showing for today.
It doesn't now but maybe later when you click on the SpaceX link their video player will be visible. I'd suggest to start checking about 4pm CST.
This one is on now:
The launch is being held inland from South Padre Island and East of Brownsville TX at a place called Boca Chica.
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Launch delayed because some *********** ************ in a fishing boat invaded the launch area - shoulds have sunk his boat.
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T minus 8 mins Starship first test launch. Space X says it does not expect success, but it would be nice. Several variants are already in the assembly sheds.
LIVE: Starship SN8 12.5km Test Flight - YouTube
Elon Musk - right to the point of landing a total successLast edited by elbmek; 09 Dec 2020 at 18:03.
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Header tank pressure failed to raptor engine hence heavy landing. One thing eveyone noticed. Raptor 1 or 3 ran for over 5 mins without problem. For a FIRST test flight - amazing!! This landing site half hour after landing and exploding, the explosion was not exactly 'huge' and soon fizzled out. Well done Elon and your experts, totally amazing, loved it. SN9 is already ready for roll out - (after checks of header tank).
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totally amazing. Its all worked!!!! Except for the damn header tank. Elon Musk final communication before shutdown: Mars here we come!!!!
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The press seem far more interested in a small 4 second explosion of fuel than the success of the test, which is all it was, in a test facility, where they routinely test items to destruction. The only difference in this case is that cameras were filming it. I watched live in a streaming feed from interested third party who had various cameras near the site. The actual launch was delayed 1 hour at 02:26 mins due to a damn boat infringing the area. The launch and flight was a great success and Elon Musk was delighted, 'we got all the data we wanted' and 'Mars here we come'. The stream commentary was exctatic, it was a very historic moment, watching a spaceship, 12k up in the air, flying horizontally, was something else.
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Astronauts? It was a shell of a craft with a nose cone fitted. This was what will be the 'top bit' of the Mars rocket.
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'Christmas Star' will be closest visible conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 800 years
'''Christmas Star''' will be closest visible conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 800 yearsBy chance, the day that Jupiter and Saturn will appear closest for Earth-based stargazers is Dec. 21, the winter solstice, which is the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere.
The double planet view is also known by some astronomers as the "Christmas Star" because of a belief that the biblical tale of the Star of Bethlehem could have been a planetary conjunction. Although around two thousand years ago, Venus and Jupiter were closest — not Jupiter and Saturn, as is the case for the "Christmas Star" of 2020.
On the evenings of December 15 through 18, stargazers can easily find Jupiter and Saturn moving in conjunction by looking toward the waxing crescent moon in the western sky 45 minutes after sunset, according to NASA's Night Sky Network.
On the solstice night, Dec. 21, the moon will be higher in the sky, but Jupiter and Saturn will remain closer to the horizon in the western sky and might look like one large star. From an amateur telescope, however, a stargazer might be able to clearly see both planets and some of their moons within one frame of view.
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