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What an Amazing collaboration between Space X Falcon and Tmobile Terrestrial Network. Today marks the first of many Starlink satellite launches to come that will include Direct to Cell capabilities. Initially, the service will begin with text messaging, with voice and data coverage to follow in the coming years.  With this technology, T-Mobile is planning to give customers text coverage practically everywhere in the continental US, Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico and territorial waters, even outside the signal of T-Mobile’s network starting with a beta in select areas by the end of next year after SpaceX’s planned satellite launches.

Innovation at its finest!

This is going to crush the VC investment in this segment.

The payload stack on recently launched Transporter-11 mission by SpaceX is a great example of integration engineering.the payload adapters and release mechanisms are all designed in-house and every customer payload is mounted such that it stays within the tight operational limits imposed by the design. We need to bring together Dynamics, Mechanisms, Avionics and Controls to deliver these cargo in their precise orbits. Transporter missions have been a boon to small satellite operators who get to save cost and launch reliably with these ride-share missions. #spacex #rockets #spacetechnology #satellites

SpaceX has revealed the flight plan for the Starship Flight Test 4 currently scheduled for June 5th, pending regulatory approval. Key changes compared to previous flight are: 1. The Hot Staging Ring will be jettisoned from the Booster after the Boostback burn to reduce mass and aerodynamic disturbances caused during the Transonic descent. 2. The Ship after re-entry will try to do a flip and perform a landing burn akin to the suborbital flight tests in 2020-2021. They will be not be conducting an in-flight Raptor restart this time. Key goals for this flights are: 1. Perform a soft water landing of the Super Heavy Booster in the Gulf of Mexico. 2. Make the Ship maintain attitude control and survive the entirety of the reentry interface. This will be the Fourth overall flight of Starship involving Starship 29 and Booster 11. Both have underwent a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) and are awaiting the granting of launch license by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). #spacex #Starship #elonmusk

Really cool/hot! Hydrosat thermal infrared satellite lifted off! From thermal infrared imagery one can derive land surface temperature to estimate crop water consumption and crop water stress, and develop applications to improve irrigation management.

#Stage2RUD #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Falcon9 "SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded, pending an incident investigation, after an inflight failure — a rare misfire for the company’s workhorse vehicle. The mission, known as “Starlink Group 9-3,” launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday evening and was carrying 20 satellites bound for low Earth orbit. The rocket’s lower first stage, or booster, operated as expected before returning to land. But the rocket’s upper second stage failed to reignite its engine as planned and was destroyed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed. “Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown,” Musk wrote in a post on social media. RUD, or “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” is a term SpaceX uses to refer to an explosive or destructive event. The company said in a later update that the engine failure came after a leak of liquid oxygen in the second stage. Falcon 9 is grounded until the Federal Aviation Administration signs off on SpaceX’s investigation of the incident, the federal regulator confirmed. “The FAA will be involved in every step of the investigation process and must approve SpaceX’s final report, including any corrective actions,” the agency said in a statement to CNBC. The Starlink mission was the 69th Falcon 9 launch of the year — with the company averaging a blistering pace of a launch every two to three days in 2024 — but the investigation will likely delay launches planned in the weeks ahead, including two crewed missions: The private Polaris Dawn and NASA’s Crew-9. SpaceX still deployed the 20 Starlink satellites but noted that the second stage engine failure means the satellites were in “a lower than intended orbit.” In an update Friday afternoon, the company said it made contact with 10 of the satellites in an effort to use the satellites onboard thrusters to climb higher in orbit. Despite the attempted recovery, SpaceX confirmed that the “enormously high-drag environment” from being in the wrong, lower orbit means the satellites will not be recovered. The 20 satellites will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. “They do not pose a threat to other satellites in orbit or to public safety,” the company wrote in a statement on its website. Falcon 9 has been on an unrivaled run of success for nearly a decade, chocking up more than 300 consecutive successful orbital launches since its previous inflight failure in June 2015, during the NASA cargo mission CRS-7. In total, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has launched 354 missions to orbit, with more than 300 of those featuring successful landings and resulting in the reuse of rocket boosters more than 280 times."

✈️NovaSpace Predicts Increased IFC Services in New Report✈️ In its latest annual report, Novaspace (Merger of Euroconsult & SpaceTec Partners) forecasts the rapid expansion of in-flight connectivity, with the number of connected aircraft projected to reach 60,800 by 2033!📈 The report highlights key trends, such as the rise of #NGSO satellite services like Starlink by SpaceX and OneWeb Technologies, and the impact of multi-orbit solutions combining GEO, MEO, and LEO networks. Discover how IFC is transforming the future of aviation! 🔎Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ersTFyxj #SpaceNews #Aviation #InFlightConnectivity #Satcom #NGSO #NovaSpace #SpaceX #ElonMusk #StarLink #OneWeb

We now know what happened during #Starship's second test flight, with the #FAA closing the investigation on the mishap. Read the full story in my latest article on Space Voyaging ⬇️

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