[Starlink] 9 starlink flights planned for june

[David Lang]

On Wed, 3 May 2023, Dave Taht wrote:

> Thx as always for ever more links to information. They recently
> attempted launch from two pads on nearly the same day, I am wondering
> what the turnaround time is for boosters these days, and how much
> inventory they have. If they can improve their cycle time, 9/month
> seems achievable on the 3 pads they have, aside from conflicts with
> other launches.

rykllan posts infographics for most launches (not just SpaceX) but for SpaceX 
launches she shows the history of the booster used, including the turnaround 
time for each launch

https://twitter.com/_rykllan

for tonight's launch, the refurb times have been 47, 44, 55, 55 48, 250 days 
(going back in time)

SpaceX just leased SLC-6 at Vandenberg (Shuttle, Delta pad) and has stated that 
their plan is to set it up to be able to launch the Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9

I think their biggest limiting factors are pad availability and landing barge 
availability.

> Random thought - other launch sites long term? This was built to great
> fanfare a while back
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> https://www.spaceportamerica.com/business/lease-build/

Virgin Galactic has had a pause on their flights for a while. I understand that 
they are soon going to do another employee only flight, but then expect to be 
able to start carrying paying customers

> Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Space_Centre

It's heavily used by the ESA, but with the fallout from the Ukraine war, ESA 
lost access to Russian rockets that were launched out of there. They are almost 
out of Ariane 5 rockets to launch from there. Ariane 6 was supposed to fly in 
2020, but they are now hoping to launch the first one late this year (or next 
year)

> And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein_Atoll

Pegasus is pretty much dead, there was a mission a couple years ago that was 
carefully tailored to be a match for the Pegasus @$25m launch cost, but SpaceX 
won the bid and used a dedicated Falcon 9 (it's not public what the winning bid 
cost, but we can infer from the Pegasus marketing material and their failure to 
win the bid)

I think that's just too far from the ability to generate fuel for any serious 
launch capacity.

David Lang

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>> David Lang
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>> On Wed, 3 May 2023, Nathan Owens via Starlink wrote:
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>>> FWIW, many of those are likely to slip, there are a number of commercial
>>> launches in June/July. Depends if they re-shuffle Group 6 ahead of other
>>> shells.
>>>
>>> Upcoming non-starlink launches from the cape:
>>>
>>> May:
>>> - Arabsat 7A (SLC-40)
>>>
>>> June:
>>> - CRS-28 (LC-39A)
>>> - WorldView Legion 1 & 2 (SLC-40)
>>> - Axiom 2 (LC-39A), TBD
>>> - Turksat 6A (39A or 40)
>>> - Astranis (39A or 40)
>>> - O3b MPower 5 & 6 (39A or 40)
>>>
>>> July:
>>> - Galaxy 37 (39A or 40)
>>> - USSF-52 (39A)
>>> - Euclid (39A or 40)
>>> - USSF-36 (39A or 40)
>>> - Thuraya 4-NGS (39A or 40)
>>>
>>> August:
>>> - Crew 7 (39A)
>>> - Echostar 24 (39A)
>>>
>>> Sept:
>>> - Axiom 3 (39A)
>>> - Polaris Dawn (39A)
>>> - Ovzon 3 (39A or 40)
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 2:19 PM Dave Taht via Starlink <
>>> starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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>>>> Ḿind boggling.
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/VirtuallyNathan/status/1653867999919751169
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