Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Launches 21 Starlink satellites from California

Published: Apr 06, 2024 Duration: 00:57:30 Category: Science & Technology

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e e e e e you evening everyone and Welcome to our live coverage the latest Mission from vanderberg space Force Base I'm all Robinson Smith I'll be providing our commentary for the duration of this coverage we're broadcasting from the space flight now news Bureau here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Stephen young is running the technical operations of the broadcast this evening and being that this is a West Coast launch our photographers Adam Bernstein and Michael Kane are off getting some rest this evening it'll be a busy few days as we get on into this upcoming week as Michael Kane is going to be chasing the eclipse hoping to get some views of that down in the Texas area meanwhile Adam is going to be sticking with us here in Florida as we have a ride share mission for SpaceX bandwagon one the first batch of only 11 satellites as compared to the dozens that fly on the transporter missions but 11 satellites are going to be on board that Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center here that's coming up tomorrow in the 7 o'clock hour pm and we'll have full coverage on that when that mission comes up but tonight we have a starlink launch ahead of us this is the first batch of satellites going up to the eighth shell first time for this shell but the second time that SpaceX is launching satellites that feature a direct to cell capability we recall back on the first launch of the Year there were six satellites included in that Starling Cadre that went up to low earth orbit that had Direct to sell features and they've done a lot of testing of that service on the ground very much in the I guess pre- beta stage if you want to refer to it like that but theyve been able to uh make calls uh post to X formally known as Twitter as well as sent text messages so so far the servic is proving to be what they were hoping I'm going to add six more to that ultimately to get up to believe they told the EPCC about 7,500 direct to sell capable starlinks as part of the constellation and a lot of those are going to be launching in the front half of this year so we'll be keeping track as much as SpaceX is going to be publishing when the direct cell starlinks head up to low earth orbit but tonight we have six out of the total of 21 that are part of this mission e we are currently less than 30 minutes away from the launch of this Mission from Vandenberg space Forest base Bonine rocket will be lifting off from space launch complex 4 East or slick 4E lift office up for 7:25 p.m. Pacific as you can see at the bottom of your screen 10:25 Eastern 0225 UTC in other words T minus 22 minutes 13 seconds from now we do have word from space that that propellent load has begun so they are committing themselves to this t0 time tonight even though the window lasts quite a bit longer hopefully everything is moving along track as it appears to be for an ontime departure at 7:25 Pacific tonight certainly appreciate the 5200 of you who are joining with us live this evening you haven't already to allow more folks to find our live coverage if you could be so kind as to hit that like button and share the stream that way more folks can come on in as we cruise into the last 20 odd minutes before liftoff space flight now is also powered by our wonderful Channel member community so thanks to folks like that opal guy Jeff Hansen Christopher Jones Mark Auto Renee Herrera F Huber distributor 69 airn NOA Doug W and many others really appreciate your ongoing support of space flight now channel membership comes with a number of perks including discounts at our online shop shop. spaceflightnow.com as well as access to member only videos here on YouTube and the ability to watch all of our Cape base launches in 4k and our thanks to one of our often very generous channel members clist Lee for gifting 10 space light now memberships kicking us off on a good note here if you are one of those lucky 10 who got gifted Channel membership be sure to thank clisa in the live chat and we hope you enjoy the benefits of your new channel membership last but not least if you'd like to help support we do here at the channel and on the website could use the YouTube Super Chat feature not only will that give us interesting things to talk about as we step step on through the count but you'll also be supporting what we do here at space flight now as long as your comment or question of course is appropriate to be read on the show we would love to include you in our live coverage we'll also be keeping an eye out in the live chat for relevant and constructive comments from our channel members so we will keep our eyes to the live chat as much as we possibly can we're at t- minus 19 minutes 2 6 seconds in counting with propellant load underway let's go ahead and talk about the remaining Milestones that are left in the count today started at T-minus 30 minutes when the launch director hold the team for the start of prop load which began with propellent load at T minus 35 minutes rp1 a rocket grade kerosene being loaded on the first and second stages of the Falcon 9 rocket and the oxygen being loaded on board the first stage tus 30 minutes is when the cryogenic helium load began that helium is loaded onto the pressure vessels of the first stage at the 30 minute Mark and it's used to pressurize the main propellent tanks during flight T minus 25 minutes it's when that process begins on the second stage brings us up to just a few minutes go when the loading of uh Second Stage kerosene wrapped up just a couple minutes ago about T minus 20 minutes 50 seconds is when the strong back chill down process began if you recall from our Cape base launches that's when we see the so-called big vent from the strong back visually striking sign as the feed lines are being chilled prior to Second Stage locks load which is coming up in just 2 minutes from now t- 16 minutes that's followed at the tus 7 Mark with the chill down of the N9 Merlin 1D engines there at the bottom of the falcon9 first stage they flow a small amount of liquid oxygen through the plumbing in the turbo pumps and protects the engines from the risk of thermal shock and damage during the startup sequence about six minutes out the first stage kerosene tank should be full then at T minus 4 and a half minutes the strong back retract sequence begins here in Vandenberg the transporter erector or the strong back reclines about 13° away from the Falcon 9 rocket and it stays in that position until liftoff about 3 minutes out the first stage liquid oxygen tank is fully loaded two minutes out second stage lock load wraps up and that means the Falcon 9 rocket is fully loaded with 1 million pounds of propellant in the final 60 seconds control of the countdown is handed over from the ground sequencer to the falcon9 onboard flight computers the propelling tanks are brought up to flight pressure 45 seconds out the SpaceX launch director will give their go for liftoff the ENT ignition command is issued at T minus 3 seconds and then of course if all nine Merlin 1D engines ignite and are healthy old down clamps will get the command to release the Falcon 9 for a liftoff at t0 which again it's coming up at 7:25 p.m. Pacific 10:25 p.m. Eastern in 0225 UTC or in 20 or excuse me 6 15 minutes 26 seconds in counting want to thank a few more folks for your support this evening Taskmaster music with a $2 Super Chat thank you so much Taskmaster want to welcome George leas to channel membership at the pad leader level welcome aboard George glad to have you with us hope you enjoy the perks of Channel membership and to one of our current channel members Christopher Jones thank you so much for the $2 Super Chat as well really appreciate that good to see you this evening if you had an opportunity to catch Elon musk's update on Starship earlier today it's about a 45 minute or so presentation that he made talking about the evolution and the progress for that launch vehicle doing quite a bit with the Starship program of course eventually it will be launching from here in Florida not for some time but they are working towards having two operational Towers both at Starbase and two here at the cape not looking at having their first Cape based Starship Tower operational sometime in the middle of next year eoli viewers of Launchpad live will have noticed that they have been dismantling the previously built legs there at the base of the Starship Tower working to create a functional system more in line with what's at Starbase musk said that Starbase will continue to be more of the Developmental and testing side of the Starship program meanwhile more of the operational side of things will eventually start to shift to Cape Canaveral they're also looking at potentially trying to catch the super heavy booster during the fifth flight it sounds like things are still on track of course with FAA approval which is still outstanding but a fourth launch of Starship sometime in May is very much within the realm of possibilities so you may be seeing us head back to Southern Texas in the not too distant future Starship program constantly keeping us on our toes musk also briefly touched on having marine-based launch pads for Starship down the road as he described needing to Launch hundreds if not thousands of Starships in waves in order to as his stated goal has been for many years at this point to make life multiplanetary the renderings are Quite a feat so it's definitely worth giving it a watch and a listen if you'd like to get an update there on the Starship program of course it'll be used to launch the larger version of the Starling satellites compared to the on that will be lifting off with this Falcon 9 launch today in 12 minutes and 52 seconds for this Falcon flies let's go ahead and walk you through the trajectory of this Mission we have one of our channel members Josh king with a $5 Super Chat thank you so much Josh asking if this is another Sunset launch like the last one from California given the timing it should be right about Sunset so hopefully we'll get some very nice views of the Falcon 9 and some folks in the Southwest United States if the visibility is good you may see it as far away know we've seen some photos of Falcon 9 launches from out in Arizona so hopefully you've got relatively good visibility and we'll get some cool pictures coming up a little over 12 minutes from now as far as where this bird is going to fly it's going to leave from space launch complex 4 East slick 4E and fly in a southeasterly direction along the coast of Southern California the western coast of Mexico that orange line you see is the path of the first stage booster today SpaceX is flying booster 1081 spent most of its life over here on the East Coast having first launch the crw 7 group of astronauts which arrived back on Earth not too long ago it also supported the launch of spacex's 29th Commercial resupply Services or CRS mission to the International Space Station it launched a group of Starling satellites on the 6- 34 Mission lifting off from pad 40 here at the cape it also launched n is Pace spacecraft and Earth observing spacecraft looking at ocean color and Plankton and most recently it launched a ride share mission of its own transporter 10 that was its first launch from California this of course coming up on the second and after liftoff and about a little over eight minutes into this Mission it will land on the Drone ship of course I still love this will be the 88th landing on this drone ship if successful and the 293d booster Landing to date creeping up on the big 300 for SpaceX it's been a very busy year for them in total this is launch number 34 if you can believe it coming up in just over 10 minutes from now we're about 3 minutes away from the engine chill down sequence thermally conditioning those Falcon 9 first stage engines taking a look back at the live chat here I want to thank Astro Joe one of our wonderful channel 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minus 7 Minutes 5 seconds and counting couple seconds away from that engine shill as mentioned there are 21 Starling satellites on board this particular Falcon 9 flight each of them clacking in at about 1,760 lb it's about 800 kg once their solar panels unfur they have a wingspan of about 100 ft or 30 m they use argon Hall thrusters for in orbit Maneuvers as opposed to the previously used Krypton Hall thrusters they're built in Redmond Washington near Seattle be deployed at about 180 M or 290 km altitude above the Earth's surface at a 53° ree inclination photo that you're seeing here on your screen is about as good of an image as we have of a starlink V2 mini satellite deployed on orbit this picture coming to us from hoo robotics captured last year of a starlink in a little less than a minute we should be getting some video from SpaceX so before we do let's quickly step through the launch timeline after the Falcon 9 lifts off from the pad it'll pass through Max Q with the point of greatest aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle little more than a minute out that's followed by a few events in Rapid succession first first stage managed cut off or M at about 230 followed up by stage separation and then second stage engine ignition or scs1 payload fairing jettison a little after 3 minutes that's followed by the first stage entry burn about 6 minutes 10 seconds that burn lasts about 20 seconds first stage Landing burn begins just shy of the 8 Minute Mark I'll set up a Landing at about 8 minutes and 17 seconds second stage engine cut off happens before uh the 9 Minute Mark here it goes into a parking orbit till about t plus 53 minutes 33 seconds quick 3se second burn setting up starlink deployment 1 Hour 2 minutes 28 seconds and with that we'll go ahead and bring you these gorgeous sunset fuse of the Falcon 9 rocket as we are preparing for what looks to be a very lovely sunset launch tonight now tus 4 minutes in counting in real time the slight discrepancy here between our countdown clock and what you see from SpaceX ours is in real time the SpaceX feed coming in on a slight delay you're seeing the strong back retract sequence there as the strong back or the transporter erector is reclining 13 degrees away from the falcon9 rocket want think a few more folks as we're closing on in the last few minutes here our thanks to Dennis Randol for a $2 Super Chat Linda fiml for a $2 Super Chat as well checking in from Santa Barbara Eric Dilla with a $10 Super Chat thank you so much Eric saying thanks to Jenny toia will'll be watching from Victorville wow starlord with the very generous $20 Super Chat thank you wow Star-Lord so we're passing the three minute Mark here stage one lock SL is complete I was just about to say first stage liquid oxygen tank now fully loaded in less than a minute we should hear the call up for the same on the Falcon 9 second stage thanks to wow starlord though for a very generous $20 Super Chat thank you wow for supporting us that level wumpy with a $5 Super Chat asking are the Starling satellites already turned on not exactly in the sense that I think you're asking they will um be activated and checked out once they're on orbit that said they are likely on internal power they just go through a an on orbit checkout phase once they've actually deployed coming up on two minutes in the count go through just these last couple of super chats here Jerome mcil 15 with a $5 Super Chat thank you Jerome saying it's the first time I've known about a launch ahead of time I'm in So cal and so excited which is always fabulous to hear Sir Jeffrey CLA thank you for joining us with Channel membership and I'll make this complete last one for now now uh Jackie Yates with a very generous $20 Super Chat sing out hopes for a bright future we'll come back to the rest of the super Chats on the other side of the launch we're seeing here as the ground gas close outs as everything appears to be on track for This brilliant Sunset Falcon preparing to take flight in just over a minute if you haven't already be sure to hit the like button allows more folks to find their way in as we're cruising into Falcon 9 launch at Sun set from sunny and wonderfully cloudless California Falcon 9 is in startup and now 40 seconds out we should hear the SpaceX launch director give their go for launch momentarily LD go for launch and with seconds go for launch we're going to go ahead and step back and listen to the final count from SpaceX let's listen in 14 seconds out in real time T minus 15 seconds t- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ignition and lift off of Falcon 9 go SpaceX go starlink vehicle is pitching down range stage one propulsion is nominal and as you saw and are still seeing a brilliant liftoff at the Falcon 9 rocket pulling away from the California coastline on the Starlight 8- Miss now coming up on one minute flight Falcon 9 is supersonic Falcon 9 vehicle now traveling faster than the speed of sound on this Mission Max Q the call out Max Q balcon KN passing through the point of greatest aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle coming up on those events in Rapid succession that I mentioned a little bit earlier we see first AG manage and cut off for moo in fact started t plus 2 minutes and 30 seconds that'll be followed by stage separation 4 seconds later second stage engine starter scs1 at about two plus uh t plus 2 minutes and 41 seconds and then falcon9 Halo fairing deployment at about 3 minutes and 8 seconds into flight just a great shot co 9 is following a nominal trajectory the edge of the atmosphere there on the left hand side of your screen it sounds like so far a nominal burn of the Falcon 99's nine Merlin engines coming up on Mo less than 10 seconds now on the SpaceX feed happening now real time main engine cut off stage separation confirmed hand back ignition and all great call out and some great visuals of both the Falcon 9 second stage and first stage as you see the Hypersonic grid fence deploying on the first stage booster tell number b1081 in the SpaceX Fleet those bursts you see there just beyond the grid fins those the cold gas thrusters fairing separation confirmed and you see the payload fairing are following nominal trajectories away and the Starling satellites exposed to the vacuum of space for the first time again if you're just joining us you're watching the Flight of the starlink 8-1 mission very much in progress so far following a nominal flight path this launch of starlink satellites also includes a batch of six that feature direct to sell capabilities a new addition to the starlink fleet and operational capability bringing the total up to to 12 so far the first six launched back in January they've gone through a number of testing and checkouts of the direct to cell operations SpaceX reports that they're getting good results from those so far and so they're adding another six to the fleet now coming up on four and a half minutes into this launch the next Milestone we're expecting to see is at T Plus 6 minutes and 10 seconds that'll be for the first stage entry burn that burn lasting about 20 seconds slowing down the Falcon 9 first stage booster in preparation for its Landing burn which will come about a minute and a half after that now coming up on 5 and a half minutes into flight so far everything appears to be going smoothly for SpaceX this evening we're about 30 seconds away from the start of the entry burn beginning in real time the time you want to watch those at the bottom of the screen coming from the SpaceX feed great shot of the Shadow there on the Falcon at first stage just seeing the sun peer through the grid fins that entry burn now beginning in real time you got a good telephoto lens in Southern California you may be able to see it from the ground stage one entry burn startup it's burn lasting again about 20 seconds or so shut down you can see the speedometer Dro dramatically there for the falcon9 first stage still climbing for the second stage as that Merlin vacuum engine continues on nominal burn not a little over seven minutes continue to follow nominal trajectory stage one fds is safed we're less than a minute away from the start of the landing burn on the falconite first stage stage two fds is safed stage one transonic we're now just about 20 seconds away from seeing the start of the landing burn falcon9 first stage has slowed to below the speed of sound stage one Landing burn see the landing legs deploy momentarily two is in terminal guidance drone ship should come up on that there we go nice crisp views from the Drone ship tonight Landing leg deploy stage one Landing confirmed and what appeared to be a heard a confirmation of good Landing of that first stage booster bit of an extra glow though right before they cut away and back shut down e as The Stance we are now t+ 10 minutes 7 seconds into this Falcon 9 flight don't believe we heard a call up for it but it at this point in the mission the second stage should have entered into a nominal parking orbit after the second stage engine cut off or SEO the Merlin vacuum engion will reignite at t plus 53 minutes and 3 seconds for a 3 second burn setting up for Sterling satellite deployment at t plus 1 Hour 2 minutes 28 seconds if fall continues to go well with this Mission before we close out with our update to the mission stats want to thank some folks who made this live launch coverage possible tonight our thanks to channel member Robin furbush for $2 Super Chat thank you so much Robin who says great night for the launch and yes it seems like some wonderful views at Sunset with not a cloud in the sky from what I could tell at least in the immediate Southern California area West delay response videos with a $2 Super Chat thank you so much West LA appreciate that Jessica Anderson with the $1 Super Chat thank you Jessica two2 Super Chat from swell asking if we announce uh live from vanderberg uh we have not done a launch directly from vanderberg in my time here as far as boots on the ground but we're looking at ways as always to expand and improve our live launch coverage and so that is something that we are looking at the fees ability of and certainly Channel membership and the super chats help us toward expanding the capabilities of what we can do both in travel for things like conferences and events but hopefully with more robust sort of nominal launch coverage as well so we appreciate the support and getting us to bring you better launch coverage year-over-year space nerd with this $1 Super Chat thank you space nerd one of our wonderful channel members Bucky P with a $2 Super Chat thank you Bucky Michael white with also with the $2 Super Chat saying this is awesome keeping it 100 10 minute meditation Namaste with a $2 Super Chat thank you so much Shelley East with a $2 Super Chat as well thank you Shelly Sam with a $5 Super Chat thank you Sam our thanks also to Britt Lindley the $2 Super Chat saying well this launch track over Texas tonight that message I'm guessing coming in before the launch itself and uh no the flight path of basically every orbital launch is designed to not fly over land so the next uh good launch you'll be able to see from Texas will be the launch of Starship coming up potentially as soon as may but we may see a suborbital flight from Texas potentially before then the first black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight is set to be among the six passengers flying on Blue origins new Shephard rocket which while they haven't given a launch date for that yet uh they describe it's coming up potentially soon so whether that sometime in April or sometime in May that'll be exciting to see him currently 90 years old creeping upon 91 could be the oldest person to fly above the kmen line once he launches right thanks also to Eric lus for her $5 Super Chat thank you so much Eric Eric says my daughter is so excited to watch from our backyard and Selenas I'll hope you're able to see the launch well tonight certain that looked like good launch viewing wow starlord of the $10 Super Chat thank you you Star-Lord really appreciate a little bit more support tonight theasin with a 100 RSD Super Chat asking if Sam Altman was the commentator no I'm no Sam Altman just Will Robinson Smith one of our wonderful channel members Josh king with a $5 Super Chat saying on the last launch from California I saw the picture on Instagram people seeing the Falcon 9 during a Dodger game which is very cool yeah I know one of my former colleagues at Spectrum news3 was able to catch one of a recent uh Falcon 9 flights from here when he was watching uh an Orlando soccer game so it's always cool when you can blend Sports and space flight Chrissy with a $10 Super Chat thanking whomever he got the gifts up from likely kalisti Le or Astro Joe tonight Valerie Harris with a $2 Super Chat thank you Valerie cm208 with a $5 Super Chat thank you CM DJ Andreas with a $2 Super Chat thank you DJ saying thanks for the coverage you're very welcome thanks for your support and our thanks to Nicole G and Kangas cook D rude for a $2 Super Chat a piece really appreciate the both of you and with the successful LIF off and apparent Landing although it looked a little uh uh interesting there at the end coming on the Drone ship appeared as though one of the uh Merlin engines was still firing even after a landing which was a little odd we'll hopefully get an update on that at some point from SpaceX although see here are the mission stats that they currently stand this was the sixth flight of falcony booster 1081 in the SpaceX Fleet this was the 319th Falcon 9 launch to date the 3 4th Falcon flight of 2024 34th orbital launch of this year so far as well this was the 107th orbital launch in the last 365 days the 72nd orbital launch from space launch complex 4 East and the 140th overall launch from this pad as well and the 12th launch from Vandenberg in 2024 this was the 88th Landing of a booster on the Drone ship of course they still love you the 228th SpaceX drone ship Landing to date and the 293rd booster Landing so far finally moving out to some industry level stats this was the 12th orbital launch from California the 36 orbital launch from us soil the 39th from us rocket company including the three from rocket lab down in New Zealand getting ready for their fourth coming up uh later this month and this is the 66th orbital launch from around the world this is how that shakes out on the pie chart us still leading with SpaceX leading the charge with 56% of launches so far about a quarter of all the launches coming from China you can see the rest the breakdown from here El musk also noting from his uh presentation which was given to Folks at Star base on Thursday but published to social media on uh earlier today I should say he predicted that by the time that Starship is fully operational and flying with regularity that SpaceX alone will be delivering 99% of all up Mass to lower orbit at the time Starship is making regular flights which is quite astounding when you think of it in those terms of course we'll have continuous coverage of the Starship program as it rolls on as is the case with the rest of the space industry I want to thank just a few more folks I saw some live chats trickle on in as we were going through the mission stats and definitely want to thank all the people that support this live coverage and make it possible thanks to William Gore for a $3 Super Chat thank you so much William it's a great name kalisti Le with a very jous $20 Super Chat responding to uh earlier comment that I was responding to uh saying there's no just about you will love your style well thank you clisa that's very kind of you to say uh ter uh Tamra trael traxel apologies Tamar if I mispronounce your last name but thank you so much for the Super Chat and the kind words saying as always fantastic broadcast thank you well thank you Tam for supporting the broadcast really appreciate that Greg Ferguson with $2 Super Chat saying hi son hello Greg Haley Higgins the $2 Super Chat thank you so much Haley John hiruka for the $5 Super Chat thank you so much John thanks also to Damon Langford for a $10 Super Chat thank you so much Dam really appreciate kind words of great show William Frankle with a $5 Super Chat as well Thanking us for the coverage from Poria Arizona and last but not least Ed Boswell for a $2 Super Chat as well thank you so much Ed and if you haven't gotten your fill of live launch coverage for this weekend again we do have one more coming up on Deck before we head into the work week that is the bandwagon One mission which is going to be launching from ad 39a here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center that mission set to launch tomorrow at 7:16 p.m. Eastern that is 2316 UTC and for whatever reason they're not able to launch there is a backup opportunity coming up on Monday for that mission if you hear some clacking in the background I was just looking at what the weather outlook for tomorrow is like according to the 45th weather Squadron we're going to have a pretty great launch weather opportunity here greater than 95% favorable chance for good liftoff weather with the only watch item being the thick Cloud layers rule that's for the bandwagon One mission launching from nas Kennedy Space Center so good opportunity to see a launch Feer out here in Central Florida for uh business or perhaps for uh spring break I know there's still some spring break trips happening right now so if you happen to be in Central Florida you can catch that launch tomorrow of course we also have again the Delta 4 heavy making its final appearance on a launch pad getting ready to lift off on Tuesday very much looking forward to hopefully getting through that full countdown and seeing that Delta 4 fly closing out more than 60 years of the Delta Legacy one last point of note on this launch this was a record turnaround for the pad here at space launch complex 4 East it has only been 4 days 23 hours and 55 minutes since the last launch where it normally takes about at least 5 days between launches so congratulations to SpaceX for improving the turnaround time for this pad and we will expect to see more records like that broken in the year to come would not be shocked want to thank just a couple more folks who hit it at the buzzer with some support for the channel want to welcome Eric Edwards joining us with Channel membership with the pad leader level thank you so much Eric and and lastly here Brandon Gonzalez with a $5 Super Chat thank you so much Brandon Brandon says live about an hour away from vandenbberg saw the launch which is always wonderful to hear greetings from San Louis abiso California very familiar St lispo as a Sacramento Kid myself it's always great to see the various cities in the Golden State represented and with that we're going to go ahead and close things out for this evening want to thank again our wonderful moderators here in the live chat Astro Jen Astro Joe Stephanie B and I don't believe I saw Rusty tonight but thanks also to Rusty Shackleford I know he tends to help out over on Launchpad live so would' like to see continued views of the pads over 39a and B and views from Starbase via our friends at Padre you can always hop over 24 hours a day to launch pad live and check that out and again we'll be back here with live coverage of the bandwagon One mission sending 11 satellites up to a mid inclination orbit coming up tomorrow evening just a little bit after 7 o'clock a thanks to Stephen young for running things in the background on a technical aspect for this stream Adam Bernstein not in a camera capacity tonight but hanging out with us in the live chat helping to do some moderation duties as well thanks bud and most importantly thanks to you from wherever you're watching around the world joining us for our live launch coverage of the starlink 8-1 mission sending up 21 Starling satellites including six with direct to sell capabilities for all of us here oh and I see asro Joe noting that Russy shakleford was here so fabulous our thanks to all of you and for the team here at space flight now I'm a Robinson Smith love it if you subscribe on the way out but of course as always be good to yourself be good to others and we will see you next time good night e e e e e

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