SpaceX To Launch Lockheed GPS Satellite At 12:09 P.M. Eastern

Says 12:05 pm but they usually start broadcasting 15 minutes before launch. Around noon it should be live.

I'm not too far, but it's raining here, so live stream it is.

IMHO it's getting scrubbed.

How can we see Gaylon Husk's "Starlink satellite trains" at night, with the unaided human eye?

Each one is about the size of a small dining table, and is over 300 miles away from any viewer.

They can't reflect sunlight, because they are in the Earth's shadow.

So, what are we actually seeing?

I know that this simple truth will probably make your "Spacex" fanboi brain explode, but try thinking about it.

When the world is flying into the abyss it's nice to have comedy like Fakex to relax and have a good laugh! Nothing like CGI entertainment and fake Austro-nots too!

"Spacex" is even more cringe-worthy than NASA.

That takes some doing!

How much you want to bet that both of these retards use the GPS on their phones and in their cars even as they claim it's all a CGI hoax?

And is reflective. Something they are trying to minimize, actually, but shortly after launch the satellites are in an attitude that faces enough surface area to the ground below that you can see them quite easily.

Bahahahahaha!!!! You think you can just categorically declare that they're always in earth's shadow? No, that's not how it works. You are so hilariously dishonest. You CAN see them when the sun is close enough to the horizon (generally close to twilight) that the satellites have line of sight to the sun at their altitude while you do not on the ground below them.

Last Edited by Astromut on 06/17/2021 11:41 AM

Another Live stream

I'd actually be happy if it does get scrubbed, because then I may be able to have a shot at filming it.

SpaceX webcast is now live.

elon musk came out of nowhere


one day he was a nobody now everyone knows his name....

behold the first post of glp which mentions elon musk and also SpaceX from 2011


the man is an anomaly, he started building rockets before he started building cars....

Thread: !!!FALCON HEAVY ROCKET!!!! SpaceX unveils 'most powerful rocket' , Entrepreneur Elon Musk plans biggest rocket since moon trip.

Gaylon is a sinister kinda guy.

So is Zuckerface, Dorsey, Bezos, Cook et al.

I saw the thread rating and popped in to witness the hoards of morons claiming it's all fake.

I was not disappointed.

launching now

Fuck Elon Musk

Everyone knows that GPS is just triangulation from Ground Based locations of the celestial lights in the sky at any given point from your arc of horizon, zenith point. They know how the sky clock works and as worked since the beginning of the ages. All they did was mathematically model it to work 24/7 day or night. It's how ships used to find direction at night.

Satellites are bullshit and that's why GPS doesn't work sometime in remote areas. Period.

and I missed it by 30 seconds -- I always miss these things!

If by celestial lights, you mean radio signals from GPS satellites, you're right!

No, I have no desire to chat with an astrology community. Dumbass.

would help if people knew the difference between AM and PM

should use UTC/GMT for these things

I think I like watching Falcon 9 land as much as the launch. Hopefully at some point they can keep the camera from blinking just as it touches down.

How about saving money by cancelling the Mars Mission.

Ahhh cool. That time it didn't blink out.

That was awesome

Beautiful footage all the way to landing!

Last landing the camera from the booster itself didn't blink at all until after engine shutdown, though the barge one blinked.

That was very cool. Eighty eight recoveries!

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So? I'm not the dumbass asking an amateur astronomer why they aren't chatting with astrologers...

I get 4 times as many positive karma votes from other users than negative karma votes. In fact, that ratio existed even before I became a mod here. I don't doubt that dumbasses like you hate me, I'm happy about that. I'd be bothered if you actually liked me. But you are outnumbered.

No.

You forgot arrogant.

Nope. I do enjoy putting idiots in their place though. I don't think of myself as any kind of hero, in fact I think of myself as an asshole who beats up on the special ed kids as they get off the short bus. In fact, doing so has inspired me more than you know.

The original inspiration for my rocket tracking software came from a desire to document these launches all the way to landing so that I could shove it in the faces of those who would call it a hoax. I basically did it to bully idiots. Does that make me an arrogant narcissist? Probably. Is it still useful to people with the right equipment? You bet. Does it make me a hero? Certainly not.

Interesting side note, I've been asked not to post about my software on a couple of the most popular astronomy forums out there. The existing order of professional software companies don't want some upstart offering free open source alternatives to their overpriced crap for tracking satellites (*cough*Software Bisque*cough*). I don't pay to play for a "vendor account" so I'm not allowed to discuss it, even though the source code is freely available. On top of that, there's a certain amount of paranoia that my software attracts an unsafe element to the forums, bad actors who want to use it to shine lasers in pilots' eyes, or that the software itself may not be safe for their users' equipment. In any case, it means I'm not even allowed to discuss it in a couple of the most popular places out there. I'm free to discuss and share it here as much as I want.

I'm glad I worry you. You should be worried. Yeah, I'm an arrogant narcissistic asshole, and the only reason I have survived this long here in the face of continuous opposition is because I know what I'm talking about.

Last Edited by Astromut on 06/17/2021 12:38 PM