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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Kinetica-1 Y14 just delivered eight rideshare satellites to orbit.
Kinetica-1 is now the first vehicle from a private Chinese launch provider to launch 100 satellites. The team continues to accelerate to meet rising commercial demand.
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Rocket Lab launched a suborbital HASTE mission a few days... and it went into orbit. Talk about throwing a curveball.
The blank orbital data on space-track's satcat page for 2026-130 have now been filled in showing 198 x 199 km x 40 deg and 189 x 204 km x 40 deg for the two objects. No actual TLE/GP data, at least so far
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
We are targeting NET 15 June to launch Mission 'Onward and Upward' during the available launch window opening at 8:00 pm UTC (10:00 pm CEST), subject to weather, safety, and range infrastructure.
Follow the launch live: youtube.com/live/Ss1DUqLjecc
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Starship Flight 13: Booster 20 heads back to Mega Bay 1 for engine installation while Ship 40 awaits a rollout to Massey's for Static Fire testing.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Booster 20 is back in Mega Bay 1 for the installation of its 33 engines as Ship 40 prepares to roll for its Static Fire test. Both are major milestones ahead of Starship Flight 13.
➡️youtu.be/7ii_4O-P008
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Y'know, instead of having this, it'd be interesting if there was a section dedicated to the AI satellite constellation technology. Similar to how Starlink's website has a section about how it works and all that. starlink.com/technology
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My only conspiracy theory is that the folks that we see at airport gates being right at the beginning of a terminal are paid actors. Every time I've flown I've never had to board through a gate near the start of the terminal, it's always been at the end of a hall or something
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Nothing like waiting at the security line for 40min to then have to walk another 40min to get to your gate. Meanwhile you pass by 2-3 dozen gates that all have people on them and you wonder "are people really this lucky to not have to walk so much to their gates?". Paid actors
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Jun 13
NASA's Pegasus barge has been spotted at the Port of Baltimore. The barge is set to pickup NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that recently completed assembly at Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The telescope will travel by barge to NASA's Kennedy Space Center before launching on August 30 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
When the NASA administrator pops into the Flame Trench Show!
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Jun 12
The next Atlas V 551 rocket launch campaign is underway at Cape Canaveral as United Launch Alliance prepares for the Amazon Leo 8 mission. Targeted for July 3 at 12:03 a.m. EDT, pending range approval, the launch will deliver another 29 advanced broadband satellites into low Earth orbit for Amazon’s constellation.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
LAUNCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 B1080-27 launches Starlink 10-54 from SLC-40.
Live on X and YT: youtube.com/watch?v=wkwYXsmK…
SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Starlink 10-54 x.com/i/broadcasts/1qKVmmvzO…
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
LAUNCH!
JAXA Live:
youtube.com/watch?v=HSiaGTea…
Japan’s H3 rocket will return to flight Friday, with a launch that also marks the debut of a new configuration, optimized for smaller payloads.
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Mach diamonds!!!!
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Battle of the Builds #2
I caught the LR13000 at LC 37A showing off it's abilities lifting the first of nine Starship tower modules earlier today.
Blue Origin has a segment of the Vertical Refurbishment Facility in place. You can spot it between the cranes.
More cranes have been added to the recovery of the LC 36 facility. A constant parade of dump trucks, logistics, personnel and supplies was coming through the south gate of Cape today with all of the activity going on.
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My Battle of the Bays series is nearing completion. Introducing Battle of the Builds for your consideration.
The LR13000 has gone vertical at LC-37 so we may soon see Cape's 2nd Starship tower rise. Cranes are staged at the Blue Origin Vertical Refurbishment Facility (VRF) signaling that the foundation work may be ready for columns and walls. Heavy equipment staging has begun for the LC-36 pad clean-up and assessment of steps going forward following the static fire event.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Jun 11
37A tower stack is underway. The growth of the Cape skyline continues… exciting times!
The LR13000 crane is officially active lifting the first of nine modules for the first Starship tower at Launch Complex 37.
Does this pad have an official name yet @TurkeyBeaver
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Yes! SLC-37A is back!!!
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37A tower stack is underway. The growth of the Cape skyline continues… exciting times!
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Looks like this was the first launch to happen under the new space launch and reentry licensing and permitting user fees.
These fees, which amount to a rounding error for launch costs, would help pay for part of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation at the FAA.
LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1071 on its thirty-fourth flight launches Starlink Group 17-44 from SLC-4E, at the always sunny Vandenberg.
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The launch above, given the known weight of the Starlink v2 Mini satellites, should have translated into a ~$7,600 fee. There's a yearly cap, as shown in the screenshot on the first tweet, which would mean in about 4 Starlink launches they wouldn't need to keep paying.
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And this is basically why I said this amounts to a rounding error in launch costs. With Starship, the yearly cap would be hit in one single launch just for reference.
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