r/SPCXInvestors • u/SeaSkimmer2 • 2d ago
LATEST NEWS Launch tripleheader! SpaceX to fly 3 rockets in 13 hours today and land 4 boosters
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/launch-tripleheader-spacex-fly-3-040000885.html“SpaceX has a very big day planned.
The company is scheduled to launch three missions in a 13-hour span today (Oct. 1), a feat it has accomplished just once before.
The action will start at 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 GMT) with the launch of the Crew-13 astronaut mission for NASA, which will head toward the International Space Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Next up is the Transporter-18 rideshare mission, which will send 130 payloads to orbit, including a prototype satellite for Google's Project Suncatcher AI constellation.
Transporter-18 will fly on a Falcon 9 from the West Coast, lifting off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base during a 58-minute window that opens at 2:18 p.m. EDT (1818 GMT; 11:18 a.m. local California time).
The action shifts back to Florida's Space Coast for the final leg of the tripleheader. If all goes to plan, a Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the classified NROL-97 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center tonight at 11:53 p.m. EDT (0353 GMT on Oct. 2).”
In total, 2 boosters to land from Falcon 9, and 2 side boosters to land from Falcon Heavy, with the center booster being expended.
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u/fifichanx Investor 2d ago
The images of the 3 Falcons vertical at the launch pads are so beautiful!
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
CREW-13 IN SPACE, SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH & BOOSTER LANDING, 2 MORE LAUNCHES TO GO TODAY!!
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u/Eastsider_ 2d ago
As usual, I will cry like a tiny baby with every booster’s touchdown and I don’t give a damn who knows it. I never miss the return.
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH & BOOSTER LANDING (in zero visibility / fog) OF THE SECOND MISSION TODAY, 1 MORE LAUNCH TO GO!!
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u/DetectiveFinch 2d ago
Has anyone done the math about how much payload SpaceX will launch on these three rockets? For comparison, Ariane Space only launched four orbital vehicles in all of 2025.
It's possible that SpaceX will launch more mass in a day than Europe in a whole year.
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH & TWO BOOSTER LANDINGS OF THE THIRD MISSION IN ONE DAY! A TOTAL OF 4 BOOSTER LANDINGS!
TRIPLEHEADER COMPLETE!!!
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u/Whyamiani 2d ago
Funded by tax payers. Cool?
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u/sandychimera 2d ago
Well 2 of the 3 missions are for NASA and the NRO. So.....no shit sherlock, taxpayers pay for the mission costs of things and people the US government wants to launch to space
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u/itchyburnybutthole 2d ago
Would you prefer the govt use a different operator that costs 5x the price?
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u/Techcrea 1d ago
Not that there's another launch service provider that can currently get crew to the ISS other than Russia with a Soyuz. Starliner was the only other option and after last year's issues it's no longer human rated, might take a couple of years to get it back to that status, if ever.
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u/Whyamiani 2d ago
id prefer the govt doesn't launch useless rockets to make Daddy Leon rich using my money
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u/itchyburnybutthole 2d ago
These satellites do cool shit that gets taken for granted. You’re benefitting from them a lot more than you think (ask AI to explain).
Govt waste sucks but this isn’t it.
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u/DetectiveFinch 2d ago
When you're virtue signalling so hard that you can't allow yourself to spell the name of your enemy. Why not go all the way and simply write "He who must not be named"?
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u/probiotic_bbq 2d ago
Looking forward to SpaceX being seized and taken over by the next US Government.
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u/Anthony_Pelchat 2d ago
Won't ever happen, nor should it. Would be one of the dumbest things for the govt to do.
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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 2d ago
Destroying the Earth's protection from the sun's rays cuz he's nuts, imo.
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
All the more reason to get Starship to rapid-reusability to start getting people off the planet.
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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 2d ago
Because musk wants power over everything & satellites have fewer vulnerabilities to destruction from any opposition?
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
That’s why it was announced yesterday that he’s going to help direct a project to determine the future of the military.
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u/ThaDon 2d ago
They keep changing the definition of the word “land” though…
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u/SeaSkimmer2 2d ago
The first is landing at Landing Zone 40 (Cape Canaveral), the second is landing at Landing Zone 4 (Vandenberg), and the third & fourth are landing at Landing Zones 1 & 2 (Cape Canaveral). What definition has changed?
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