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Well that seems… problematic.
Well that seems… problematic.
Wow, going from a daily pill to a biannual injection seems like major progress. I feel like we’ve almost solved HIV; now it’s just a distribution issue.
Nice shot! I wish I lived near a launch site…
Any idea what the horizontal streaks are? Aircraft?
Deployment of SOC-i, TechEdSat 11, Serenity, R5-S4, R5-S2-2.0 confirmed!
Edit: Deployment of KUbe-Sat-1 confirmed.
Edit2: Deployment of MESAT1 confirmed.
Edit3: 7 of 8 deployments confirmed. Still waiting on confirmation of CatSat deployment. Webcast is ending. CatSat deployment will be confirmed on Firefly social media.
Drone footage of the incident has surfaced: https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1808378644949094742
Neat angle we haven’t seen before.
SECO and nominal orbit insertion!
Edit: Payload deploy scheduled to start at T+44 minutes.
MECO, stage separation, stage 2 ignition, and fairing separation!
Liftoff!
Go no-go poll is complete, they are go for launch!
Webcast has started! John Galloway (NSF commentator) and Morgan Feanny (Structures Engineer, Firefly Aerospace) are back.
Recap on previous aborts: One of the ground support sensors was reading off-nominally.
Another launch attempt tonight: https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1808613970334416979
We are go for another Alpha #FLTA005 launch attempt tonight with the target liftoff at 9:04 pm PDT. Alpha and all 8 @NASA payloads remain healthy. Livestream begins at T-30 minutes.
Kurzgesagt did a video on the topic. We just build a planet-sized sunshade to freeze the atmosphere, launch the excess CO2 into space, and import water from the ice moons of the gas giants. Simple, really.
So why not just fix it here where it’s millions of times easier than doing it on Mars
Also, I’m not entirely convinced that the problems are analogous. Mars needs to be warmed up, Earth needs to be cooled down. I think a more appropriate challenge would be terragorming Venus.
So… “DART from Temu”?
In all seriousness though, China has had pretty good success with their deep space missions so far. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
Firefly is one of several companies racing to field new medium-class rockets, and all will be at least partially reusable. Rocket Lab, perhaps the most dominant company in Firefly’s class, is developing the Neutron rocket as it continues flying the smaller Electron launcher, which now has amassed 50 missions. Relativity Space, a well-funded private company based in California, is developing the partially reusable Terran R rocket after abandoning its smaller Terran 1 vehicle following just a single test flight. Stoke Space is working on a novel rocket design with a reusable booster and upper stage.
I can’t wait for all these new reusable vehicles. The future is exciting! I’m pretty confident in Rocket Lab, and reasonably confident in BO. Firefly and Relativity are a bit of a mixed bag. Stoke is the dark horse, and I hope they succeed. Their design is super cool.
The launch has been postponed: https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1808269692458655840
Firefly has decided to stand down on today’s Alpha #FLTA005 launch to give the team more time to evaluate data and test systems from the first attempt. We will work closely with the range and our @NASA customer to determine the next launch window. Stay tuned for more.
New T-0 scheduled for 2024-07-03 04:03 UTC, 2023-07-02 21:03 (PDT).
I don’t recall Falcon 9 ever breaking free from the test stand and launching accidentally…
Rather than restarting Mars’s internal magnetic field, could we build a solar or nuclear powered artificial magnetic field?