SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Bluebird-1

and here we go we have wh off propulsion continues to be noral R 68 chamber pressure looks good probably not water tower [Music] fly go down [Music] nomal it's orange my [Music] God 343 unfolds to go we rise together back to the moon and and Beyond if was me it be exiting in the flare [Music] correct we don't need any more of [Music] these hello and welcome you are looking at a Falcon 9 rocket sitting on slick 40 at Cape canaval space force station ready to launch the blue Bluebird block one satellites to low earth orbit this is basically a direct toell starlink style competitor to starlink and yeah we're going to wait and see for this to launch hopefully we get a launch here it should be happening around the time of polaris's Eva and I believe if I'm not mistaken the Polaris capsule resilience Dragon resilience is about to fly over uh Florida like right now I don't think we'll have any views of it but pretty nifty we've got some people in space we do have a separate stream that is going to go live for the Polaris Dawn Eva so uh yeah I hope you have enough screens handy to watch everything exciting that's happening tonight I'm Jack buyer for NSF if you guys have any questions at NASA space flight in chat we'll see your questions pop up in some software that we're running in the background uh we got Max and D not oncs just yet they are uh rushing to get set up in the field so thanks to them for that and we have Carson Phillips operating the stream in the background thank you Carson or maybe it's Kevin I don't know it's somebody thank you whoever's operating the stream also on commentary we have the illustrious Mr Trevor snic Trevor how you doing bud I'm good you know every time you introduce me I think I learn a new word so that's a good thing I may be stupid but I do have a good vocabulary so it's like a good way to sort of camouflage your stupidity it's I highly recommend it cool so uh keep asking your questions there in chat we will shortly have D and Max on stream but yeah as I said Trevor these are sort of um it's sort of a competitor to starlink direct to cell it's a it's a company that's trying to do Broadband from space direct to cell phones that's what I mean when I say DTC uh is is that is that correct yeah so it's as space mobile um but they're kind of taking a very different approach uh uh compared to SpaceX right SpaceX with their starlink uh direct to sell constellation is kind of in the really low orbit and launching a very large number um of payloads and these Bluebird satellites are going to be in a higher orbit uh and are substantially larger so there's a stack or there's a photo of the payload stack prior to in or during encapsulation and you can kind of see um the five of them being launched on this mission interesting payload adapter sorry to to interrupt you there but yeah five satellites like four on the bottom one on top yeah it is uh very weird looking um and what you you can kind of tell from looking at them like you may be like where where's the dish where's like what am I looking at they just look like you know weird cylinders and that's because they actually have this enormous uh Deployable phas duray antenna I believe something it's on the order of like 10 m uh in diameter uh that they once it's on orbit in the correct orbit they start slowly expanding it um and then that will allow them to directly communicate with um your cell phone which is quite cool and like Jack was saying uh will be like DTC where it's not going to need any additional Hardware it's just going to be um connect to it for emergency calls I assume at the start it'll be emergency and then hopefully um longer term moving over to uh pure data like FaceTime calls or whatever fun stuff we want to do over it right uh you know I use a variety of Technologies to stay safe when I am out of range of cell signal which is surprisingly frequent in this modern day and age uh you know I have a Land Rover I like to go off-roading I like to go to the middle of nowhere often times no cell signal now you can just have a starlink mini but up until very recently that wasn't a thing you have to carry a full-size starlink dish if you want connectivity or I have a fancy little I don't know gadget called a uh inreach which uses the which uses the Iridium Network yeah it saved me many times actually um and I'm I'm a big fan of it but now with various companies like I don't know apple and T-Mobile uh vying to offer direct to sell capability so that you can message or or what have you um even when you don't have cell signal it's a big deal like I I pay uh something like 30 40 bucks a month for my inreach and it's nice you can turn it off every month this is meant to be an ad we're not sponsored I just want to make that clear it's just like I find Direct to sell capabilities very fascinating because again I pay like 40 bucks a month 30 bucks a month on uh you know this service and all it is is very rudimentary like 160 character SMS style text messaging um so as time goes on and we advance further into our glorious space future I'm I'm all about having more capabilities and it doesn't have to just be Starling direct to cell it can be other things like this Bluebird constellation Trevor this is the first of several planned uh Bluebird satellite launches right I think they're launching um 25 do you do you know how many like was it's it's a smallish constellation right yeah I'm actually not entirely sure uh how many satellites they're preparing for I think I've seen like several numbers floating around uh but they are in the there are quite a few satellites but not like thousands of or hundreds or thousands of satellites so um right each one each satellite will leave masses about 1500 kilograms so uh it is a a decent bit larger than starlink and like I mentioned since these are ex exclusively designed uh to communicate with your cell phone unlike starlink DTC which is communicating with your cell phone on top of the normal starlink dish right um they're able to be a little bit more efficient when it comes to that sense um unfortunately right since this is not a starlink or transporter Mission we don't have any tle uh for this Mission uh tle are two-line element sets they kind of tell you what the initial orbit uh the rocket is going to drop the satellites into uh so we don't exactly know uh how much work the satellite would do to get uh to its orbit versus the um rocket but yeah this is going to be a much smaller constellation talking well muted sorry about that so yeah I don't know we're we're rapidly approaching the point where uh maybe I just cancel my inreach subscription thing is though I have an in reach 2 right as a climber it's really nice to have and right I I always like having both because I feel like that thing will last way longer and yes is a bit more rugged but yeah I definitely understand the not wanting to pay the fee yeah and and just once again this is not meant to be like a indorsement or an advertisement of inre but this is a subject that is sort of close to my heart uh and you know I will say in favor of the inre Trevor as I'm sure you know they have an SOS button on them mhm and I and through uh through their I don't even know what you call it through one of their options to their plan is you can pay a little bit extra a month and get like up to a million dollars of recovery insurance so like let's say you break your leg and you press the SOS button and they have to send a helicopter to come rescue you uh you don't necessarily have to foot the bill for the helicopter because you have like this weird emergency insurance through it so uh probably won't be canceling anytime soon but I I do feel like we are getting to the point where the in is obsolete like you can see that future like coming down the pipeline right yeah it's I mean it's also in my opinion just really nice that um it offers this redundancy uh where dissimilar redundancy yeah dissimilar redundancy since they're using different constellations and it could be uh even like almost 3x redundancy if you consider uh Garmin uses a ridium I believe and then Apple uh Apple's plan I think is it is it with global star for their um iPhone 14 and later uh phones can communicate with satellites and for Rescue and sending iMessage and whatnot and then starlink and then now like if ASD comes online like that's already four options which is just awesome and it's what's also really cool is I know SpaceX announced uh or I think Elon posted on x uh recently saying that starlink DTC the direct to cell they're going to open up to it up to everyone uh for emergency phone calls so even if you're not paying SpaceX you can still use their service uh if you need to be rescued or something which is just awesome and frankly the way that it absolutely should be yeah absolutely a sort of similar thing happened when Apple um announced messaging via satellite to where you know we're getting into the weeds here but you know what I guess tonight's stream is all about um talking about things we're particularly fond of I obviously am a fan of Apple products so are you Trevor so I feel like we can bring this up um Apple makes a lot of money these days off of services like service Revenue meaning subscriptions whether that's iCloud uh storage or apple Fitness Plus or Apple TV or you know any number of things where they figure out a way to charge you a little bit every month and when when they first announced um SOS messaging via satellite you know a lot of times they'll bake these new features into the price of a new phone and it was like okay well iPhone 15 gets the satellite um the satellite communication but what happens next year they're going to start charging like five bucks a month for it and sure enough no they didn't it's just opening it up to all their phones it's like one of those things that every human in a time of need should be able to have connectivity whether or not you're paying for a service or not you never want to have a story where it's like somebody could have gotten help and you know had something tragic happen to them but they weren't paying $ Five Doll a month so they couldn't access the network so both starlink and apple um you know making the world a little bit safer which is which is Nifty and I look forward to more companies sort of falling suit so rqua in chat says 127 hours later yeah good good reference I don't get the reference but I also the documentary about the hiker who who got stuck 100 for 127 Hours had to like cut off I haven't I've not seen that that actually sounds like something I'd be very interested in yeah you should watch it okay I will um but what I was going to bring up is just how crazy it is to me like maybe this is just me being ignorant maybe this is I'm dumb well I am dumb but it is crazy to me that you have something in orbit traveling 17 a half thousand miles per hour that is powerful enough to communicate with some small telephone that you're using on the ground of earth right like the amount of signal processing that goes into that and the amount of error correction and redundancy and the signal and just everything like it blows my mind that that is possible so to all of those Engineers like hats off to you it is crazy yeah I can only imagine they're using some big honking antennas uh maybe phased array antennas I not sure I would love to know more about how they accomplish that feat of engineering because it truly is right like a a cell phone from orbit like that radio has to be I don't know if we're talking about it in terms of like visual light has to be like a little tiny LED flashlight on your phone and the the satellite has to be able to pick that up and then transmit to it it's it's really quite remarkable so um neat I I I'm curious how these can we go uh Carson can we go back to the incap uh the incap photos like I'm I'm looking at these cylinders in the in the in about to be inside the fairing in their little payload adapter and I'm not seeing anything that's like super obviously like a folded antenna do you see anything like that like it's uh yeah I'm just I'm very curious about the mechanism and how these work and they're they're just neat they're neat satellites yeah I'm I'm not sure how they're going to deploy either um there is a photo of it deployed if we can uh I can post it in the let me actually make sure that this is yeah this do that I'm going to thank some people for their support because we can't do these streams without you guys NSF firing on all cylinders tonight with this and with the Polaris Dawn Eva so uh you know we can't do this stuff without your guys' support to that end j thank you for becoming a pad rap member Starship watch Vader EJ becoming a pad R member thank you for that Carson somebody named uh car Carson Phillips I don't know who that is they they must not have a cool nickname uh thank you for becoming a ccom member Carson you you mad lad don't you already have access to all the things Eric uh thank you for becoming a red team member Thomas Smith becoming a oh no upgrading to launch director Thomas thank you so much investing 2020s becoming a patter member Ken launch director wow thank you Curtis pad rat member and Rody mom 12 I wonder if Rody mom 12 has a Rottweiler thank you becoming a red team member and Jim C gifting a red team membership hooray because of your support we can keep doing this stuff any uh any any luck Trevor yeah I'm I have them in the batch and we'll see if I'm allowed to show them if Carson uh is so inclined chat if you have any good ideas for a nickname for Carson I mean post this kind of the top of the satellite that we didn't see from that other view um where it has this like like Cube thing and then there's another photo uh of the entire thing deploy it so how it gets from this like Cube cylindrical shape thing to the image we're about to show I certainly have no idea uh is that's like that's pry enormous that's a pretty enormous phaser antenna that is huge neat thank you for finding those Trevor of course and there just goes to show you what does it take to accomplish cellular Broadband connectivity from orbit a giant phased array and holy cow talk about Cutting Edge so about 38 minutes go no go ahead please please please no I was just to say I would love to see like a starlink DTC satellite properly deployed on the ground like that because I I don't think it has it definitely doesn't have uh like a massive phase aray antenna like that so they must have some other way of being able to communicate with your phone like I suspect like I was saying earlier right the AOC constellation I believe is going to be on the order of um a couple hundred satellites whereas right starlink is a couple thou I mean they're they've launched over 7,000 and they're in a lower orbit right star Link's about uh 550 kilometers and as is about 750 if I remember correctly um so I imagine the fact that you're a little bit lower and you have to worry about a smaller portion of the earth uh does allow for you to get away with a substantially smaller phase day antenna uh on on the Starling DTC satellites but I also don't know what I'm talking about this is all of this thing is so beyond me it's it's very cool stuff though I I don't think it's beyond don't neg yourself Trevor uh I I'll do that for you um yeah you know what I would really like to see I would like to see sort of a render or an infographic that has a uh a mentor or Advanced Orion satellite like would be launched on a Delta 4 heavy which has like a 300 foot uh dish you know it's a spice at um compared to a starling TTC compared to one of these Bluebird satell lights I would love to see just sort of a two-scale comparison between all three because U Mentor has one of the if not the biggest dishes uh again estimated to be about 300 foot 100 meters in diameter um that I'm aware of but you know what that picture we just showed was pretty darn big uh maybe even bigger I'm not sure I'm a bad judge of scale but either way it's uh just fascinating the sort of technology that goes into this stuff so we're about we're uh almost at 36 minutes to go Trevor how close are we to uh to fueling start we're pretty close right yeah so uh at this point SpaceX should have started the go noo pole for fuel load um and if they've decided to pull go that fueling will start in just under a minute minute however I don't think we have brought it up yet uh the 45th latest weather forecast has the um weather being at about a 70% chance of violation for today's window so it's 30% go but SpaceX does have a 4-Hour launch window so if they don't start fueling in the next 40 seconds they can uh keep pushing it on however assuming that they have pulled go let's all cross our fingers for that uh rp1 will begin being loaded on both stages uh and liquid oxygen load will begin being loaded on the first stage um so we'll have to wait and see if that's started uh generally it's a little bit of a race between us being able to get visual confirmation looking at the booster looking at frostline and any venting and SpaceX posting on X about uh fueling having uh began so uh we'll be keeping an eye out for both though as always indeed hopefully SpaceX X's a post what are you like what are you even supposed to say anymore I hopefully hopefully SpaceX uh zets I can't believe I said that hopefully SpaceX zets something and we uh we get some confirmation or we see some condensation coming from the base of the booster here shortly and as a reminder we do have D and Max both out in the field hopefully uh to get us some really amazing views of tonight launch so this is one of our uh believe one of our robotic cameras but stand by and we will have a sick shot from uh from the team in the field there they are setting up now so thanks to them for doing so in the meantime Trevor Ken is asking do we know why this launch slipped from the earlier listed September 9th launch date um yeah I think it's probably just uh schedule um R SpaceX just laun lach the uh actually I guess the last launch from this pad was like September 5th so about a week ago um yeah my guess is it's probably just scheduling and SpaceX was super busy with the uh Polaris Dawn Mission which obviously took priority at the company they wanted to make sure that they had as much engineering Talent looking at that analyzing everything taking looking at everything for the hundredth time um so I I suspect it was a combination of Just Launch scheduling probably a little bit of weather and then Polaris Dawn yep yeah that makes sense uh and just a quick um correction I suppose this is not a robot shot this is a shot D set up before they and Max uh are had to run to to set up at their alternate locations so good work d we have a it's not really a question it's more of a statement from Shazer toddbot interesting name they say watching here in the New Orleans metro area with zero power using backup batteries to keep powered keep up the good work holy cow uh you must be getting hit by Hurricane Francine right now so I hope your power isn't out for too long either way just goes to show the sort of situation that might benefit from uh cellular connectivity like what if the whole entire cell network terrestrially goes down that would be bad um hope you stay safe Shazer don't drive through water Etc am I is it just me or is that a frostline I I do sort of feel like I was seeing a little bit of vapor there so hopefully that's a good sign also sort of cor to the last question LC says the DTC sounds like it could be really beneficial in emergencies like big earthquakes when cell circuits in an area are down or slammed with call attempts 100% yes 100% yet another reason why uh technology like this is important I mean people people so often are like oh why do we waste money on going to space it's just billionaires playing with toys and they just want to escape earth like you hear all those sorts of arguments and it's like no no no no the very best thing that that space flight can do is is improve our life here on Earth I mean there's a variety of amazing things it's exploration it's science it's Innovation I mean look at what Polaris Dawn is about to do with their Eva here uh very shortly but it's also about improving life on Earth and that's that's really important I have been so disappointed by how little attention I've seen for polaron outside of like space news areas like so few of my friends aren't into space flight know about it and whenever I tell them about they're like holy cow I can't believe this is happening so right I hope it continues to get um more coverage especially you know as when in a couple of hours they do the first commercial Eva which is just kind of crazy to say yeah I'm I'm super excited for it I I've been following along with the Polaris uh Twitter account you know sort of devouring every bit of information they've been posting it's been really delightful and I can't wait to see how the rest of the mission plays out hopefully Trevor as the Eva happens and we get some presumably sick imagery from the event uh that might uh that might allow sort of the message there to go farther and wider hopefully I mean it's it's basically a big part of our job to get people hyped up about this stuff and you know whether it's from us or mainstream news or friends telling friends about stuff like hey chat if you have any friends that might be interested in this sort of thing maybe let them know like be that annoying friend that's like hey do you know this thing that's happening um because what are we at NSF if not that um but the more people that are excited about this stuff the better so that's why we're excited about it you know what else I'm excited about Trevor the frost line well yeah no I was going to say the feed that Max is setting up right now so hopefully we get Max uh Max's camera live here shortly I'd be very oh speak of the devil that is a wonderful shot thank you Max Norman dollar interesting last name with a $20 Super Chat thanks bud they say my first launch in person sitting on the beach with my fingers crossed great job always great job guys always watching y thank you so much Norman that that really means a lot that's very generous of you hopefully here in just about 28 minutes you will get to see your first inperson launch and hopefully it's a good one once we get uh D and Max on comms I'd like to get a sit rep and sort of get their Vibe on what the weather's like if you're there in person what might Norman see tonight you know clouds that sort of thing um but also a really cool thing about tonight's launch I didn't mention this yet I'm I'm a failure it's an rtls right Trevor yes that is correct so um it's been a while since we've seen an rtls from the cape at least it feels like a while um but it will be returning to Landing Zone one um and the booster I also don't think we mentioned is b107 which is flying for its 13th time U b178 has supported let's see it first supported creu six and then it supported 03b and power 3 and four and then nine starlink missions and ussf 124 so it's a fairly new booster uh in the grand scheme of things um but awesome to it's definitely cool that we're saying of booster flying for its 13th time is pretty new but yeah it'll be recovered on lz1 uh and then the fairing halves as always will also be attempted uh they'll attempt to recover them those will be recovered downrange by go beyond as Doug continues to undergo maintenance sorry not go beyond go go Cosmos I misspoke there and Jack is Jack talking m m yeah you know nothing I said was worthwhile so it it doesn't really matter but yes I was talking well muted once again Max Jack how you doing bud well this rather busy morning um is has started off rather chaotically for all of us over here um on the cape canaval space force station uh but we are here now we have our cameras set up if not if not almost completely set up on dside uh we are getting ready to go we uh we are currently stationed at the itl causeway about 3 3 or 3.2 miles from the Launchpad so it's a very good view uh despite the transporter erector seeming to block the rocket from this angle but trust me once a liftoff occurs the views are going to be well worth it and I I can see that we must be do propad now see some I see I see some condensation there fantastic hopefully things will progress smoothly here 70% chance of weather violation last we heard so question mark I mean we've seen falcon fly with less than 10% probability of favorable weather so I I wouldn't rule anything out yet they're quite good at threading the needle um and hence you know why they're actually fueling the rocket if they didn't think they could pull it off they probably wouldn't go through the expense in time let's not forget just what two days ago they had a launch with 70 or 60% probability of violation though it did improve through the window speaking of I have a question about the window it there is a uh what is it a 4H hour window something like that correct but as they have started fueling that sort of means that it's this or nothing for this launch attempt right that is correct at this point now that they're into prop load uh they can't really recycle um this is actually a stat that I've been wanting to go back and find and of when the last time SpaceX uh was recycled a launch of attempt on the same day of a Falcon rocket but with block five it's basically not a capability that they have um they technically do if there's a long enough window and blah blah blah um but uh it's not something they do commonly um so yes at this point a scrub or any delay today would mean pushing back 24 hours to tomorrow's window which I believe is at the same time and I believe weather gets slightly better well hopefully it's the non-issue and they get this rocket off the ground here in about 24 minutes we have a question here from Dean Watts asking I wonder if that team I I I believe they mean the team that was standing around the unfolded phased array antenna we were looking at earlier I wonder if that team is capable of folding a fitted sheet no that's hilarious impossible yeah nobody is capable of folding a fitted sheet if you know someone that can fold a fitted sheet or if you can you're lying you're [Laughter] lying oh good deal b162 is asking any insight on drone ship location weather b178 has hopefully learned from my mistakes here's the thing it's an rtls as we were just talking about so there you go LC is asking is Starling going to have their own cell plan they haven't announced anything along those lines but it certainly wouldn't shock me if 5 10 years from now uh instead of the little AT&T or T-Mobile or what have you logo in the top bar of your phone you have a little SpaceX logo or something like that what do you think Trevor yeah I think Elon has posted on X saying in the short term so for the first year of Starling DTC it'll be exclusive to T-Mobile uh I imagine uh that that's because actually I don't know why that is uh I would imagine T-Mobile probably had some patents or something that SpaceX wanted to take advantage of so the partnership was valuable to both sides but that's total speculation um and then I believe Elon mentioned after that then they'll open up to all of the other carriers uh and then once it's out to all of the other carriers I don't know maybe at some point once they have enough bandwidth up there they would have their own sell service but right this DTC really isn't going to be a replacement for groundbased uh infrastructure just like how starlink itself is not a replacement for like fiber right starlink and DTC are really going to be useful for areas with very low population density where it doesn't make Financial sense to have big cell towers to have five lines to have all of that right um so I mean I wouldn't say it's impossible but I also don't think it's likely like there's many advantages to having stuff on the ground couldn't agree more o this is also a very nice view and don't get confused you're not looking at 39a this is still slick 40 as evidenced by The Four Towers they're just a fancy crew Tower and aess arm now uh this can riew I believe is from d d are you there I sure am awesome well you're like Trevor and I a little bit of a apple wonk um so if you have any thoughts in general feel free to spill them but uh you're we're typing in our back Chanel a little bit about the frequency that they're using to pull off U this service what's what's the deal with that yeah so basically in the US like the FCC Al Ates frequencies to different cell phone providers and in order for SpaceX to jump in on the cell phone connectivity with existing bands they needed a a partnership there to be able to use some of those frequencies that have been allocated to uh these companies in in the US and so for the US they're using the frequencies that are T-Mobil and so they have that partnership there and they have a number of Partnerships with different uh carriers around the world to use their bands in those specific countries neat all right well Max and D oh look it's the 20-minute vent Trevor what is going on here this is a good thing right yes this is exactly what we want to see at T minus 20 minutes and 20 seconds so right at the start when you asked me about the fuel load I had mentioned mentioned that stages one and two but liquid oxygen load had just started on stage one and uh the reason for this is the stage two liquid oxygen load does not start until tus 16 minutes and the reason for this is SpaceX wants to load that liquid oxygen on stage two as late as possible uh since they super CH it to about -2 minus 210 uh degre Centigrade um any uh they want to give the liquid oxygen as little time as possible for it to warm up uh since the cooler it is the denser it is and the denser it is the the more they're able to fit in the tanks and also the higher performance the engines will be um so because of this they don't start loading until T-minus 16 minutes and that T-minus 20 minute and 20 second vent um is them preparing that line for fuel load um so they're going to cool it down uh make sure that it's not at ambient temperatures when they begin that fuel load here in just a couple of minutes thank you for that explanation Trevor really beautiful T-minus 20 minute vent today the way the wind is going sort of blowing the vapor through the various Towers there yeah we're used to seeing that Vapor sort of going through the tower but with this perspective out here a lot closer it is uh I mean I love this view it it's gorgeous nice we have a really cool comment here from Matt saying oryan Mentor is 10 times the diameter of bluebird Carson I I hate to put you on the spot buddy um can we can we show that can we show that shot of the uh unfolded phas Ray antenna 10 times the diameter man the military industrial complex it can do quite some interesting things anyways thank you uh thank you Matt for that that comment there that's quite fascinating speaking of fascinating here's an interesting question I'm going to go around the horn and ask everybody dmax and Trevor we'll start with Trevor Trevor khed is asking after the latest events and delays how many launches do you expect SpaceX to reach this year Trevor you've been working on some fun uh I don't even know what to call it software web page you you've made a cool tool so I'm asking you first what do you what's the number you're guessing for Yeah so basically the question that I've been wanting to answer for a while is everyone you know they'll look at right I believe today's Mission today's launch is like spacex's 91st launch of 2024 and they'll be like oh the year is what a little over 75% of the way over or a little under 75% like 70% over um so you know what's 91 over7 um uh point right they would say predicting about 130 launches this year but what I don't like about that method is it doesn't take into account that SpaceX improves throughout the year uh so I have a website where you can it shows all the turnaround times and you can plug in you know what line of best fit type you want and it'll actually uh project the number of launches so this year I'm predicting like about on the order of 135 launches uh possibly um closer to 130 if the weather uh continues to be not so good but uh it's definitely been a rough year for them so unfortunately I don't I think the 148 launch schools completely out of the window at this point uh but they're still on track to reach about 13 135 which is extremely impressive yeah I love that you're saying it's been pretty rough and yet they're they still going to hit in the 130s that's that's quite remarkable Max uh what do you think how many launches this year for SpaceX well at the beginning of the year I had predicted due to a number of factors in in um into this I figured it was going to be around 125 maybe plus or minus two and there are especially around this time of year uh the the biggest factor to take into consideration is the weather because we are we of course are currently in Peak hurricane season and there are four separate systems out in the Atlantic Ocean right now three of which are in Prime maybe in Prime position to form into uh proper hurricanes and come right into right into Florida's neighborhood uh which could cause some complications if things uh go the wrong way I guess you could say uh but also SpaceX has had a couple of anomalies this year both with booster landing and of course also we we we all know what happened with the upper stage from vandenbberg not too long ago uh so there are a ton of factors at play here but all in all I want to say around again around uh 125 plus or minus 2 all right good good uh good explanation D what do you think you're asking me a numbers question um don't don't Alex me don't you Alex me right now now come on it's T-minus 14 minutes 26 seconds to go you can't do that yeah in terms of numbers I would definitely fall back to uh Trevor and all of his math but yeah Max brought up the great points about the uh hurricane season and that is going to impact it also I mean we've got Europa Clipper coming up so pad reconfiguration at 39a that'll impact it hopefully towards the end of the Year they'll be able to pick up their Pace a little bit I I again I say that like it's a negative as if they have a bad Pace this year they have been launching so much this year not quite as much as they wanted to but it is hard to hard hard to control the uncontrollable so yeah I but I I can't give a number there yeah I think D brought up a really good point that I kind of glossed over although it was taken to account with the number number that I gave of they have a lot of pads or they have a lot of time in the rest of the year where pads are going to be down waiting for a launch right Polaris Dawn just had 39a for a couple of weeks and then uh now they have Europa Clipper uh like d was mentioning and then soon 40 is going to begin conversions to crew nine uh and then shortly after that they have to go from crew 9 to what it's the hura something Mission that's launching from 40 and has an interplanetary window careful Adrian Adrian might fight you if you don't say the name right anyways continue I don't even remember what the name is to be honest but yeah it's going to be a little bit of a rough next month or so when it comes to number of launches just because theyve a number of really high uh important missions uh that they need to get off the ground um and will delay other launches good deal well that was a really good question and some really good answers about 12 minutes to go Trevor timeline wise what are we uh what are we expecting to see next or at least what's next up in the timeline yeah so next up will be a series of events um first we will begin seeing a chill down of the 9 Merlin D engines at T-minus 7 Minutes uh so that's when they run a little bit of liquid oxygen through the turbo pumps of all nine of those engines to chill them down uh just like they don't want the lines uh to be warm when they start flowing liquid oxygen through them they don't want the engines to be warm when they start that as well um so um they chill them down and the same they do the same for the second stage but that doesn't start until a bit later and then at T minus 5 minutes we'll see that strong back retract by about 1.8 degrees uh that's just the initial retraction that it does with the full retraction uh to well past 45 Dees away uh occurring after liftoff has been uh detected by the ground side um uh after that the big events will be kind of in the tus 3 to tus2 minutes uh timeline when fueling and liquid oxygen load will start concluding on both stages um before at T minus one minutes the tanks will begin pressurization for flight uh and then the Falcon will enter what is known as startup which is when the on board computers take control of the countdown from the groundbased computers uh and then at that point A T minus 45 seconds hopefully we'll get that go from the launch director uh and hopefully weather remains uh green and the range remains green for engine ignition which begins at T minus 2.7 seconds sweet you know what else is sweet everybody coming out and supporting what we do fly me to the moo I love that name I was I was trying to come up with a pun like what are they Frank son son CRA yeah I don't know I I got nothing but there's there's something there we got to Workshop it but either way fly me to the move becoming you know gifting a red team membership thank you for that LC becoming a pad rat member bford what's up bford gifting five red team memberships Judith Anne Anderson becoming a patter member and stin uh I'm just going to go with stin I hope I'm not ping your name but thank you also for becoming a patter member again we can't do this stuff without yall support so thank you so much um Trevor Kevin is asking how high an orbit Bluebird is going to yes this is what I was mentioning earlier the final orbit I believe is about 750 km uh circular um however we're not sure what the initial orbit is going to be yeah and like you said we did not get tle so tricky we'll of course get uh post-launch T though uh Jonathan McDowell and uh celest track are always phenomenal about getting that data uh available for the public in an easy to digest way good old Jonathan McDow the orbital police he's got that name for a reason JS web Productions asking what is the total launch count this year for for Falcon 9 thus far I believe this is uh SpaceX this will be spacex's 91st launch of the year and fourth of the month is that is am I correct Tremor you're the one with the website yeah that sounds right um I believe in terms of Falcon this is Falcon 99's 87th mission of 2024 and then they had one um uh must must be 88 yeah sorry this is 88th Falcon 9 89th Falcon since said one Falcon heavy and then two Starships so far good deal about eight minutes to go Homer Gonzalez is asking well Starship if5 Just say Starship flight five you don't have to say if it's fine um happened during Thanksgiving I don't think so but honestly who knows we did get that update directly from the FAA to NSF uh sort of elaborating there on uh the late November um time frame and if you read the SpaceX statement and you read the FAA statement there's sort of a 60-day resetting clock every time a new question is asked and it's just a whole uh I won't be surprised if Starship flight 5 is 2025 at this point I'm being pessimistic there but uh yeah if we're following Burger's law anything in the uh the last month or so of the Year space flightwise is very likely to slip to the next year so we'll see how that goes I hope to see Starship flight 5 soon but you know what catching a booster is complicated and that also begs the question is like why not just fly the same profile as flight four and do some other sort of testing while you get the paperwork sorted out for a catch but you know what I'm not a rocket engineer SpaceX is is smarter than than yeah I mean hey no he's not wrong he's not wrong Max you can't laugh and make it sound like it's worse he's absolutely correct I'm bad at math I have uh zero attention span like he's he's just speaking truths we can't but it but it was still funny I tried Trevor tells good jokes I tried to own it Trevor doesn't even know what a joke is Trevor's like I know about Taylor Swift and climbing things that's it and a little bit of math yeah okay fair and now coding yeah bartsy thank you for gifting five red team memberships very sweet of you if you got a gifted membership from bartsy be sure to thank them all right well we're about T-minus 6 minutes to go we're going to let our field team jump off commoms and do camera things because we love to see the content that they are able to create so max godp speed we'll see you on the decide good buddy thank you everybody once again apologies for the late join uh it's been a very chaotic night so far uh but hopefully these views are going to be well worth the wait so thank you very much and I will see y'all on the other side all right fairly well d as well thank you so much for setting up the cameras and braving the chaos tonight punch Max in the arm for me do go ahead Trevor sorry uh Alex just gave us a cool update in the back Channel SpaceX said that this is the the fairings are flying for the 8th and 18th time so that is not a record for fairings fairings have flown I believe 22 times um but still it's awesome to see flight or Hardware being flown so often yeah I'm i' said this before on streams I'll say it again on stream go ahead I I misspoke I was confusing booster and fairing fairings have flown a maximum of 20 times so this is close to the record but still not a record got it thank you yeah fairing reuse blows my mind I'm I'm still astounded by it like oh we'll just let them hit the water it's like everything in my head says that salt water kills things um including my Land Rover which I drove through a whole lot of salt water over the last couple days thanks to Tropical Storm now hurricane Francine which is now battering Louisiana and hey if you're out there and the cell networks go down I bet you're happy that companies like as are launching direct to sell capability from space look at that tie in I did hoay hoay me uh CS Miller says you've been Trevor because in chat i' asked Alex how it felt to be verbed so I guess that's only fair four minutes to go very exciting this is going to be a great View at liftoff yeah this view is very cool Trevor Avenger is asking what are The Four Towers there's there's five Towers though now there's five aren't there six do you count the rocket as a tower I mean I'm not going to shade anyone that counts the rocket as a tower but no I don't count the rocket maybe the te is a Tower speaking of I believe retract of the strong back is underway right now yeah that should have concluded by now but uh those four towers are for lightning protection uh as you've seen if you've watched Space Coast live over the last few days or really anytime Florida has a lot of uh pretty nasty weather in it and that includes a lot of lightning um so they want to make sure that the lightning hits something that is not the rocket uh and protects the rocket so they basically build these four Towers have some um not wires between them that essentially creates a faraday cage uh around the vehicle protecting it so it's all about protecting the rocket protecting everything that's expensive and making sure you hit some random steel bar instead right uh coming up on the T-minus 2minute vent which we'll talk about here in a moment really quickly Johan says huh since when do hurricanes drop salt water uh thing is is storm surge exists and the water that came over the road here Highway 4 in Star base uh was from the ocean like the tide came up really high and then also storm surge is a thing and yeah it was saltwater rip my undercarriage Graham W asking what does it cost to produce a fairing at least back around Falcon head uh launching stp2 which I think might have been the first recovered fairings if I'm not correct if I'm not mistaken Elon said something about them being $3 million a piece so $6 million for a pair but it's not just about the cost of the fairings it's also about the time it takes to produce them so by reusing them you can increase your Cadence and save money it's a it's a double-edged sword there and there we go there is the two minus 2 minute vent clearing out the lines ahead of launch as we approach one minute to go Trevor what happens at T-minus one minute with uh Falcon 9 yeah so those two events I mentioned earlier happen the first is tank pressurization uh to flight pressure begins uh so that's just making sure the rocket is structurally sound uh for when those nine Merlin engines ignite and what that's almost nine megga Newtons of thrust uh you need your tanks to be uh strong to handle that and then now the vehicle should also be in startup so the falcon9 has taken control of that launch countdown uh and then any second now we should be getting confirmation from the launch director uh that they are go for launch and we have that confirmation hooray excellent all right 30 seconds to go really quickly sausage asking are we doing something for the spacewalk yes NSF is also going to be or already is live for The Space Walk I can't even tell anymore there's so much going on tonight which you love to see we truly are new golden age of space flight and yes we we are live for the space walk right now as well so like I said at the start of the stream I hope you have enough screens but either way here we go T minus 10 hopefully we get to see these satellites launched into space shortly look for the Green Flash there's ignition and liftoff of Falcon 9 carrying the bluebird one satellites into space that's five satellites let's listen in the [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] man that Vapor cone was absolutely beautiful it even did the giant Vapor ring I I love when that happens yeah that was really cool in General seeing it find that needle through the clouds right and the exhaust lighting up all the different layers and the sound was incredible I never know when to start talking again because I I want to let the crackle linger as long as possible but sometimes something cool happens and I have to just unmute myself and be like o but yeah there you go you can see the exhaust plume from Falcon 99's nine Merlin engines expanding as the rocket ascends into thinner and thinner atmosphere I say that every stream but it's a phenomenon I find really beautiful and interesting and sort of helps illustrate the rocket the Rocket's position in Spa well space as in you know the locations around the earth uh as it ascends into the uh more tenuous part of the atmosphere plume getting really nice and blue there's Mo very shortly we should see second engine start but also this is an RT s so the booster coming back to land at the cape there's stage SE so hopefully we have some excellent views of that wow ah speaking of excellent views that is a cool view you can see at the bottom there is the second stage up top is the first stage doing its boost back bur and that beautiful light show we just saw is the interaction between the plumes of the first stage and the second stage absolutely gorgeous yeah so now the first stage will uh continue on its way back towards the cape look at that that is so cool yeah this burn is currently using three of those Merlin engines so it uses nine on the way up uh three for the Boost back and then sometimes we'll have to wait and see it is a single engine entry burn and there shut down of that uh boost back burn there's the payload stack on the second stage uh sometimes that entry burn is one engine in which case The Landing burn will be a 131 configuration um 31 uh and the landing burn is a single engine my guess is since this seems to be like a fairly low Performance Mission uh they will be doing a 131 entry burn and then a single engine Landing burn since that puts a little bit less stress on the booster uh but we'll have to wait and see uh both of those are coming up the entry burn in about two and a half minutes or so as you can see on the bottom and then Landing B burn shortly after good deal I always love this part it's another thing I say I feel like I say every launch but just watching the Telemetry watching the second stage pile on velocity while the first stage descends and slowly scrubs off velocity it like at times speeds up at times slows down um and yeah here we go there you go you can see it speeding up as it's reached apogee and begins falling back towards the Earth H just so Trevor Rockets are cool I agree Rockets are quite cool good deal they're also really hot well yeah that engine look at that nozzle yeah you would not want to touch that you could probably cook bacon on it pretty well though I think the bacon would get burned quite quickly you just got to flip it good thing all right first stage is around 100 kilometers in altitude second stage 159 but really just look at the velocity of the second stage 10,000 km an hour and rapidly rising and it's only like halfway there coming up on Entry burn of the booster here shortly also I'd like to note uh not a stubby nozzle which is good yeah thankfully I think we can all agree stubby nozzle bad yeah I know Max especially hates stubby well Max has good takes you know Max always has good takes about basically everything not only does he shoot amazing content and you know photos and videos and everything but he also has good takes he takes good photos and videos and has good takes and he hates the stubby nozzle so you know that's why we like him here we go here's entry burn fl's Coast nice wow that was short a live view of the entry yeah that did oh no okay yeah that looks like just a single engine to me um so if that is just a single engine uh we will look at the um Landing burn I I predict it will be 131 based on what I saw there uh so let's pay attention to that if it is 131 you'll see the single Center engine ignite and the two outer ones ignite briefly and it'll kind of form a line but there you can see Landing Zone in the light with the booster having a little B of oscillation as it makes its way toward that fantastic six kilomet in altitude for the booster coming through 12200 miles an hour sorry kilometers an hour really scrubbing off the Speed there look at that fantastic view from the first stage as it barrels towards the Florida coast there are those Burns booms [Music] Bingo fantastic Falcon 9 b178 has landed back at Cape Canaveral SpaceX as always making it look easy yeah and that was spacex's uh 347th booster Landing in sixth consecutive so weird sixth consecutive it's going to be a while before uh that number is commensurate with how good they are at Landing boosters once again you know their One landing failure recently really uh threw a wrench in the works within a year it'll be true impressive again true and there is sea 1 second stage cutting off its engine well that was uh fairly fantastic hooray do you know do we know how long until uh payload deploy Trevor uh um I don't know off the top of my head it is is there like is there another burn of the second stage is that it uh no so it's just a single burn on tonight's Mission and then I just checked spacex's website uh the payload uh it's about a 45 minute Coast before they begin deploying those five satellites uh and they deploy them about what a minute and a half apart uh it actually varies a little bit so it um the mission ends at t plus 1 hour in eight minutes basically got it very cool Max uh do we have you alloud and clear you there hello hello how do I sound you sound great how was that that was some excellent camera work it's always so refreshing to experience a launch from the space force side especially this close to SL 40 just because the sound is so much crisper it's it's hitting you that much harder and with how the weather thankfully cleared out uh around launch and we we can see a bunch of stars over our heads now and the clouds are getting thin we we pretty much had a view all the way uh uh past the Boost back burn of the first St booster it was wonderful and hopefully the audio and the visuals came through on uh on our end as well and of course the Sonic boom's coming over and slapping Us in the face as they normally do from this perspective as well is always a treat um but we are honestly just super grateful that uh Falcon 9 got off the ground on time this morning uh in time of course for the Eva and to prevent a further or a an already very long morning getting any longer right yeah I mean the visuals and audio we fantastic Max I mean props to you and D as always delivering the goods really great views tonight I know I know select 40 can be a little bit challenging uh so yeah great work you know what I'm also thankful for everyone who supports our work here at NSF demes thank you for the Super Chat uh Jah what's up Jah always love seeing your name pop up it say stubby nozzle is the microwave bacon of Aerospace sure it's not the best but it gets the job done you know what I'm agree with you there I agree and rrj thank you for the support there as well also I will note Alex pointed it out in the back Channel since you just asked uh about if there's a second burn on tonight's Mission spacex's website does not mention a second burn however if you look at the trajectory map that SpaceX uh shows between these live views it certainly implies that there is a second burn um and I would probably expect a second burn on a mission like this to circularize uh to raise that par G um so we probably there is a second burn but also we don't know because there's an inconsistency so you got to love little inconsistencies all right well uh I do believe as we've been talking about on this stream we are already live for the polaron Eva which should be happening here shortly so we're going to wrap this stream up right quick and everyone let's all jump over and raid the Polaris Dawn stream I want to go into the YouTube live chat for our Polaris Dawn stream and I want you to say I came from Blue Bird or something like that or just say bacon or just say whatever you want but yeah let's go let's go raid our own stream let's do everyone go spam that stream right now right now yes like like say raid say Jack sent me whatever you want to do I want to hear dos react um that's going to be that's going to be quality but yeah let's wrap this up Max thank you so much for the uh Stellar camera views and audio um max we'll get your info on screen everyone follow Max on Twitter Max is an amazing human being I love you Max I love you too Jack and thank you very much everyone else for coming out a very very very early this morning to come hang out with us and watch the launch before uh the big event that later on oh you went you went a little robot but we love you anyways already live for good deal uh there we go y robai good did you say robai either way thank you Max even if you have bad takes about the stubby nozzle also D thank you so much I don't know if you're on Comm still but uh I know you shot some sick slow-mo um we're sort of closing up shop a little bit quickly today but uh don't worry we'll uh we'll find may maybe we can get them to show the slmo on the Polaris Eva stream or something oh that would be cool always happy to be here this is a great launch with some great audio also Trevor thank you so much for being on yeah of course it's uh truly an extremely exciting day that we're about to what with what we're about to witness so everyone please go to that stream deal get all your get all your friends to watch it it is like it's just insane I'm so excited right it's it's 4:00 a.m. for me it is 5:00 a.m. for my parents in Florida I'm going to text them like right now and be like hey did you know that there's some people in space right now private individuals who are about to complete a space walk I'm going to do that they're going to be like why are you awake um and then I'm going to turn on do not disturb and watch the spacewalk also operating the stream thank you Carson we appreciate you I'm not even going to use your delightful nickname which I know you love so thank you um and yeah let's let's wrap this up I'm Jack berer for NSF let's all go raid the poist on stream bye and here we go we have LIF off propulsion continues to be nor enough R 68 chamber pressure looks good probably not tow fly yes he go down to Nino off again off off it's orange oh my God oh my [Music] God in 343 unfolds to go inde we rise together back to the moon and Beyond me be igniting in the flare correct you dead sure we don't need any more of these