SpaceX Falcon 9 historic landing thread (1st landing attempt & most recent missions)

[Tractionengines]

Falcon-9 launched a CYGNUS Cargo Ship to ISS a few hours ago. Looks like a good start. Not sure when arrival at ISS is.

 

[BEC]

Falcon-9 launched a CYGNUS Cargo Ship to ISS a few hours ago. Looks like a good start. Not sure when arrival at ISS is.

The SpaceflightNow story says Thursday at 4:20 AM Eastern.

 

[Tractionengines]

CREW-8 MISSION TO ISS launched last night. So far, nominal flight.

 

[BEC]

And, Transporter 10 is away from Vanderburg and its booster (1081) just made its 5th landing, this at Landing Zone 4 at Vandenburg.

Starlink 6-41 from Pad 40 in Florida in about an hour and a half.

 

[Huxter]

Watch the video - it has great ground shots of the booster and all it's burns and a lot of the nitrogen gas thrusters in action!

Actually brought back memories of how I flew rockets in the house (imagination!)

 

[BEC]

And the third one in less than 24 hours is up (through the fog) and down onto "A Shortfall of Gravitas". Busy day for the folks at SpaceX for sure (there was also a wet dress rehearsal for a Starship stack in the last 24 hours).

Agree with @Huxter that the video of the first stage to Vandeburg from Transporter-10 was amazing!

 

[Tractionengines]

All payloads from Transporter-10 have been deployed.

Crew-8 should dock to ISS at about 3am EST Tuesday...(5 1/2 hours from now)

 

[Tractionengines]

Starlink 6-43 just starting propellant and Oxygen loading.

Launch should be just about 7:05 EST.

 

[BEC]

And then a Starlink group 7 launch from Vandeburg about three hours later (7:14 PM PDT).

Another busy day for SpaceX.