[NO LIVE STREAM] LIVE: SpaceX Starlink Group 9-5 Launch from Vandenberg with Direct to Cell

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning and Welcome to our live coverage of starlink 9-5 Mission from the West Coast that is from Bad space launch complex 4 East at Vandenburg space force base in California we hope you all are doing fine and excited about the upcoming launch hello everyone my name is zpto MRA and I will be the commentator for today's exciting Mission launch before we dive into the mission details I want to take a moment to express our deepest grude to you on of the entire Astro yand team and the moderators a big thanks to our incredible YouTube Community for being here as we bring your comprehensive coverage of space launches packed with details and insights your presence means the world to us and we are truly appreciate your support we are super excited bringing you the live coverage of SpaceX 86th overall launch and the 83rd Falcon 9 launch of this year we are waiting for a falcon 9 lift off at 12:58 a.m. eastern time from vandenbberg space force base for a southeasterly launch for SpaceX starlink Mission the starlink mission 9-5 will be will be launching 21 Starling satellites to low earth orbit today's Starling Mission marks Bic amazing 378th overall launch with the 366th Falcon 9 launch to date this is the 59th dedicated Starling mission of the year for SpaceX prior to today's launch SpaceX has launched 1,288 Starling satellit so far over 58 flights this year and overall 6,938 Starling satellites to date Space X is currently targeting a lift of time of Falcon 9 from Vandenburg at 12:58 a.m. eastern time 4:58 a.m. UTC which will be 9:58 p.m. Pacific time on Friday that is on August 13 now let's take a look at the payload details for starting group 9-5 Mission this launch marks the 59th starlink launch of this year Starling satellites are built at SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmont Washington and today's launch consist of 21 version to mini satellites which includes 13 dedicated Satellites with direct to cell capabilities each Starling satellite is equipped with powerful five Advanced Ku band phase array antennas and three dual band parabolic antennas utilizing Ka and eband to provide increase capacity altoe these antennas utilizes ku ka and E Band frequencies allowing starring to provide high bandwidth connectivity that is four times more capacity per satellite than earlier versions each satellite features a dual solar area with a size of 52.5 square me which unfolds to we wing span of 100 ft the the two solar arras are also Aeron neutral which enables faster on orbit Maneuvers also it has a high capacity battery to provide power to the payloads each styling satellite contains three space laser transponders that is Optical inters satellite links for intercommunications which operates at up to 200 gbps which together across the constellation form a global internet mesh that can connect customers anywhere in the world also these Optical inters satellite links enables the spacecraft to transmit data without local ground stations providing truly Global coverage each styling version 2 mini satellite weighs nearly 800 kg that is 1,763 lb staring satellites are equipped with efficient iron hall effect thrusters powered by argon which enable Starling satellites to orbit Rays maneuver in space and deorbit at the end of their useful life today's payad will be placed in an orbit with an altitude of 293 km and with an inclination of 53.1 16° but this configuration does not apply to every Starling satellite as we know Starling satellites are placed in different configurations based on their groups staring uses custom build navigation sensors named start tracker that surveys the starts to determine each satellite's location altitude and orientation for best possible Broad B throughput each stalling satellite contains four reaction Wheels providing agile attitude control for the vehicle the Hors spare configuration ensures High reliability operation and its aluminium F flywheel is fully Demis at the end of life it is also worth mentioning that the styling satellites are equipped with an onboard autonomous collision avoidance system for avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and space junk autonomously which utilizes the US Department of Defense debr tracking database while speaking of SpaceX direct to sales Starling satellites direct to sell is a technology developed by Starling team in easy words it's like having a cell phone tower in space this technology allows your cell phone to connect directly to satellites now imagine we are in a remote area where there is no cell tower nearby usually we won't get any signal on our phones but we D to sell satellites our phone can get a signal directly from installing satellites overhead you don't need to make any changes to your existing LTE phone as it is designed to work with common LTE standards with absolute no changes to your Hardware firware or special apps required whether you are on land Lakes Coastal Waters or even in the air as long as you can see the sky you can get a signal it provides connectivity in remote regions as it aims zero dead zones around the world giving you peace of mind when you need it the most recently starting set made its first video call on X using unmodified mobile phones connected to Starling direct to cell satellites now starting plans to to launch the service with T-Mobile later this year with the recent inclusion of bwana K and South Sudan let's look at let's take a look at the countries where starting low latency high speed internet is now available although in this animated map of starlink you can see up to the state up to the month of June of this year but recently they are now providing the highspeed low latency internet services to 105 countries and territories now let's take a look at the flight record for the booster supporting today's star link 9-5 Mission today's supporting booster with tail number number 1081 has previous seven flights in its record including missions like Space xcw 7 power NASA under commercial crew program which marked the 11th overall crude orbital flight for a crew Dragon spacecraft CRS 29 that is Commercial resupply Services mission to the International Space Station the ninth flight for SpaceX under under NASA's CRS Phase 2 NASA space mission which stands for Plankton aerosol Cloud ocean ecosystem which is a NASA Earth observing satellite Mission next up the supporting the support admission by this booster was the transporter 10 Mission a SpaceX right share Mission which launched 53 satellites Esa Earth care mission is the next mission supported by supported by this booster which is a joint European Japanese satellite under European space agency's Earth Explorer Program and Rec recently a classified nr-1 186 mission for national deance office Additionally the booster also supported two starlink missions now awaiting its ninth flight just minutes away the last mission supported by today's booster was the nr-1 186 mission on June 28th of this year here today's Mission will be the fifth consecutive launch of this booster from pad space launch complex 4 East also today the booster will have its fourth landing on a drone ship to date with previous five land Landings in its record now let's have a look at the bar graph presenting number of Falcon 9 launches each year before today's launch SpaceX completed 82 successful launches of Falcon 9 so far this year as part of its Milestone with the recent starlink 8-6 Mission launch back on August 28th that launch marked the 30th launch since the starlink 9-3 Mission failure but unfortunately we did saw the booster the most mature booster in the booster Fleet that is with a tail number 1062 couldn't make it to have a perfect landing on the Drone ship a shortfall of Gravitas also that failure marked the first unsuccessful attempt for the Drone ship a short follow of GRA gravitas to date now with the recent starlink 8-6 launch which is 21 more than the launches made in 2022 now with today's launch of Starling group 9-5 Mission the graph shows 83 paron 9 launches so far this year which is 22 more than the launches made in 2022 they have already done more than half of as many launches as they did all of last year and it's been only 7 months and 31 days you can say it's just 8 months of the this year just 13 more launches and SpaceX will be reaching the same number of launches made in last year as SpaceX remains on course to achieve their ambitious Target of 140 to 148 launches by this year's end let's go ahead head as we progress to the countdown and review the Milestones that lie ahead for us on this Vandenburg flight at tus 38 minutes countdown begins at this point when SpaceX launch director gives the go for the start of propellent load if everything looks fine prop load begins at tus 30 minutes Mark with the loading of Rocket gr kerosine rp1 on both the first and second stages of Falcon 9 rocket at the same time locks load that is the super Cher liquid oxgen is loaded on board the first stage and then at tus 16 minutes which will be the next event that we are looking for here that's when the second stage liquid oxygen Road begins at tus 7 minutes that's when the chill down of 9 milon engines gets underway which involves flowing a small amount of liquid oxy loading excuse me oxygen through the plumbing and turbo pumps which helps protect the engines from the risk of thermal shock and damages during the startup sequence at about 6 minutes before the lift off the first stage kerosene tank should be full in a T minus 4 and a 4 minutes and a half the strong back retract sequence begins the process begins with the clamp arms underneath the payad fairings opening up followed by the transporter erector or the strong back reclining about 13 Dees away from Falcon 9 it remains in that position until lift off at which point it rapidly pulls back to clear the F clear the wave for the Falcon Rocket's vertical asent now just for a quick knowledge you might be knowing that the strong back reclining process at Vandenburg differs from that at Cape canabra and Kennedy Space Center here at Vandenberg we reclin the strong back 13° away whereas at Cape canabal we and Kennedy Space Center we recline the strong back about a degree and a half away half away from the Falcon 9 so that's a point to be noted the strong back positioned alongside the vehicle also referred as a transporter erector fulfills multiple functions IT Supplies propellants provides air conditioning pressurization gases and electrical power additionally it transports the Fon 9 to the Launchpad and positions it for the launch here is an image on your screen showing how a strong back or transporter erector transports Rockets although on your screen you are watching Falcon heavy being transported but the process is similar for the Falcon 9 at tus 3 minutes Mark the first stage liquid oxygen loading should be complete followed by the second stage liquid oxygen loading wrapping up at tus 2 minutes Mark at that point the Falcon 9 rocket is fully foiled with 1 million pound of propellent at T minus 1 minute Mark the propellent tanks are brought up to flight pressure in the final 60 seconds of the countdown the control off flight system that is launch sequence is handed over from the ground sequencer to the Falcon 99's onboard flight computers if everything looks good at tus 45 seconds Mark the SpaceX launch director will give the final go for the Falcon 9 liftoff now at T minus 3 seconds the engine ignition sequence start command being issued by onboard engine controller finally at t0 we will have lift off if all 9 Merlin 1D engines ignite and are Healy flight computers will give the command for the hold down clamps to release the Falcon 9 currently targeting a lift of time of Falcon 9 from vandenbberg at 12:58 a.m. eastern time 4:58 a.m. UTC which will be 9:58 p.m. Pacific time on Friday that is on August 30th while the eastern time and the UTC times are for August 31st while the Pacific time is on August 30th now let's go ahead and briefly step through the trajectory for today's starting Mission Falcon 9 leaving the pad from space launch complex 4 East with venberg space force base with a batch of 21 Starling satellites on board including 13 with di to cell capability Starling satellites as well for a Southeast trajectory along the coast of Southern California heading into a low earth orbit that is to the ninth shell of second generation Starling Mega constellation indicated by that green line on your screen the red line you see indicates where F 9 first stage will land after stage separation just a little lat leaving California's Coast this will be a drone ship Landing using the autonomous Spaceport drone ship named of course I still love view located here on the West Coast which means that the first stage booster with tail number 1081 flying for its ninth time will be returning heading out to the Drone ship for landing this will be the 100 successful landing on of course I still love you R ship to date the plann booster recovery is approximately 627 km with estimated fairing recovery approximately 73 km down range and the stage two debris re-entry will be in the East Pacific on the second orbit currently there are three in SpaceX drone ship Fleet of the three drone ships just read the instructions and a chart follow of Gravitas are stationed here in Florida while of course I still love you is stationed in California we expect that the addition of a fourth Township likely by the end of this year or early next year speaking of fairing recovery SpaceX will utilize a recovery vessel go beyond to retrieve the two halves of the payload fairing from the Pacific Waters the two half of the payad fairing will be recovered slightly farther approximately 76 km down range from where the first stage lands on of course I still love your drone ship after they will smoothly splash down with the guidance of parachutes SpaceX manufactures the fairing inhouse with the total cost of of two halves is nearly $6 million no wonder that SpaceX aims to recover the fairings for repetitive use mirroring its approach with rocket boosters upholding the motto of reusability and sustainability you can see on the screen how a fairing recovery looks like although the recovery vessel on your screen is dark at the Atlantic Waters performing fairing recovery operations but today's supporting recovery vessel as mentioned before it is go beyond the other recovery vessel Bob will be supporting the mission the upcoming mission of starting 8-10 while Doug and Goot go Cosmos at e course is currently aiting its next assignment here is a short video of the fairing separation and M back ignition you can see how the fairing hop separates exposing the payload on board and the second stage to have the mbac ignition another short video of a fairing half that protective shell from rocket payad on its way back home piercing through the Earth's atmosphere as you can see it creates a mesmerizing hello around it we hope you enjoyed these two amazing short clips now if we if you feel like we are adding value to your viewing experience please consider giving this video a like it really helps YouTube's algorithm bring in more space lover and Rocket fans to discover this stream helping us to build a community with amazing space enthusiasts like [Music] you also consider about smashing that subscribe button and turning on the Bell notification as we work hard to bring you detailed stream with stats and insights we' be super grateful for your support now let's take a look through the launch timeline for Falcon rocket passing these events following liftoff well before that would like to mention that SpaceX is did adjusted their lifp of time for starlink 9-5 mission right now SpaceX is targeting a lift of time for the starting 9-5 Mission at 11:54 p.m. Pacific time which corresponds to 2:54 a.m. eastern time 6:54 a.m. UTC and for the starlink 8-10 Mission they are launching at 3:43 a.m. eastern time from Cape canabal so anyways let's discuss the post launch timeline for this Mission at t+ 1 minute and 7 Seconds Falcon 9 will pass through Max q a point of greatest aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle then couple of different events coming up in Rapid succession first will be at p + 2 minutes and 25 seconds where first stage main engine cut off will occur that is Moo followed by a major Milestone within 4 seconds at t + 2 minutes and 29 seconds where first and second stage will separate from each other just after 7 seconds later second stage mvac engine will ignite for the first time during today's flight that is scs1 at t+ 2 minutes and 36 seconds coming up next at t plus 3 minutes and 1 second Mark Falcon 99's payload fairings will be jettison exposing the payload to the vacuum of space at D plus 6 minutes and 7 Seconds the first stage entry burn will begin lasting for 20 seconds up to 6 minutes and 27 seconds Mark ending the entry B for the Falcon 's first stage at this time around I will hear the call outs for stage 1 fds that is the flight termination systems being saved a quick fun fact the stage one FTS is saved or one can say flight transission systems are turned off or disabled after the re-entry burn whereas the second stage FTS is saved after the orbital insertion burn we will also hear the call outs around this time for the stage one being transonic and stage two being inter Minal guidance next major Milestone at t + 7 minutes and 51 seconds the first stage Landing burn will commence which will Orient this Orient and set up the first stage for SpaceX iconic Precision landing at t+ 8 minutes and 13 seconds the first stage will land on the Drone ship of course I still love you for the 100 time overall marking SpaceX 342nd overall booster Landing to date the second stage M back engine will shut [Music] down that is seo1 for the first time in today's flight and enter into a parking orbit at t+ 8 minutes and 39 seconds at D+ 53 minutes and 7 Seconds the second stage M back engine will reignite for a quick 1 second burn that is scs2 and turning it off at p+ 53 minutes and 8 seconds that is c 2 which will set up the batch of 21 Starling satellites deployment at approximately t+ 1 hour e e well done portter thanks for tuning in we are glad that you joined us from Thailand well no it didn't launched yet SpaceX did adjusted the lift of time previously they were targeting at 12:58 a.m. eastern time or 458 a.m. UTC but right now they are targeting at 2:54 a.m. eastern time which will be 6:54 a.m. UTC so the launch didn't happened yet well thanks once again for joining us Don Porter hope you will be enjoying the stream now coming to some stats related to today's Mission launch today's launch marks the 378 SpaceX overall launch the 59th dedicated launch of Starling satellite for this year today's launch marks 366th Falcon 9 launch to date the ninth flight for of this particular Falcon 9 booster supporting today's Mission with t number 1081 83rd Falcon 9 launch of 2024 so far and is SpaceX 86th overall launch of this year including the third and fourth integrated flight test of Starship and one Falcon heavy launch we are expecting the next fifth integrated flight test test probably early September this is SpaceX 312th Falcon booster reflight to date meaning the launch of a booster that has flown at least once before 88 orbital launch for space 6 launching from space launch complex 4 East this will be the 11 55th overall launch from this pad with this Mission success SpaceX will have a remarkable 6,959 Starling satellites launched to date now moving on to some reusability statistics this launch marks 298 Falcon 9 booster ref flly to date well previously I mentioned about SpaceX Falcon booster reflight to date in overall which will be 312 for this Mission but this one is just for Falcon 9 booster which will be 298th ref flight to date this will be the 100 100th landing on of course I still love your drone ship to date ninth Landing of the first stage booster with tail number 1081 supporting today's mission with this mission's first stage Landing which brings the Milestone of the 268th overall Dr ship Landing marking the 323rd Falcon 9 Landing and the 342nd overall Landing to date speaking of drone ship Landing let's look into the stats for drone ship Landing prior to today's Mission a shortfall of Gravitas has one unsuccessful successful Landing attempts and 80 successful Landings out of 81 over all Landing attempts with the recent starlink 8-6 mission in comparison just read the instructions has encountered three unsuccessful Landings with 888 successful Landings out of 91 overall Landing attempts previously with starlink 8-3 mission while of course are Ste love has experienced seven unsuccessful Landings and 99 successful Landings out of 106 overall Landing attempts with the previous Arctic satellite Broadband Mission today it will be the 100 landing on of course I still love you and with that we will have the 107th over overall attempts for the of course I still love your drone ship please note that only these drone ship Landing stats which I mentioned here are excluding today's Mission these are prior to today's launch let's have a look into some key stats for SpaceX launches in this year including today's starlink 9-5 Mission with today's Mission launch SpaceX have a total of 86 launches this year and out of those 59 are starlink missions including one from today 25 were non Starling missions for commercial and government organizations and two Starship launches one of the previous non styling missions the go U Mission was supported by the 10th Falcon heavy launch SpaceX reused booster for 80 times in those Miss launches showing their commitment to sustainability and reusability now if we look into the geographical distribution we get they have 56 launches from East Coast with 16 from launch complex 39a at KY Space Center and 40 launches from space launch complex 40 at Cape gabal space for station on the west coast they have 28 launches including one from today all from space launch complex 4 East at Vandenburg space force base in California and there are there were two launches from the Gulf Coast at Starbase back in Texas for the Starship third and fourth integrated flight test now awaiting the next fifth integrated flight test as for Lanes they will be nailing it today 83 times this year this could have been 84 times but unfortunately last time during the starlink 8 as six Mission the boot booster with tail number 1062 couldn't make it so for that we will be again having the 83 Landing to date most of the landings are on R ships with 65 successful Landing Landings 23 on of course I still love you including one from today 17 on just read the instructions and 25 on a short fall of Gravitas as for ground Landings they have pulled off 18 of them 11 times on Landing Zone one previously with maxar 2 mission two times on Landing Zone 2 and five times on Landing Zone 4 with a recent transporter 11 Mission prior to today's launch the success rate for ground Landings is 98.67% with 74 successful Landings for drwing ship Landing it is 96.4% with 267 successful Landings and the overall Landing success rate is 96.6% but The Landing success rate for 2024 was reduced from 100% to 98.7 8% due to the failure of the booster with tail number 1062 to land on a shortfall of gravitar drone ship during the last starting 8-6 Mission the longest stretch of successful missions in a row prior to the last mission failure that is the starlink 9-3 mission is 334 backto back successful missions that is from iridium 1 to T sat 6A today's mission is the 14th launch since last mission failure of the Starling 9-3 Mission most launches in a calendar quarter to date is 36 launches in the second quarter of this year and the most launches in a calendar month is 13 launches in the month of May again in this year only that is in 2024 if you are feeling we are adding value to your viewing experience consider giving this video a like which really helps YouTube's algorithm to bring in more space fans like you and people to find out this stream would be super grateful for your support moving on to this year's orbital launches including today's one United States is dominating with 99 launches including today's Mission launch comprising a substantial 63.9% of the global total recently on August 11th we had a successful rocket lapse electron launch for capella space which deployed the Acadia 3 satellite which also adds to the number of us orbital launches made this year China follows closely behind accounting for 24.5% with 38 launches China plans setting a new record with 100 space launch in 2024 including Luna and station missions Russia maintains a steady Pace with nine launches with the recent so 2.1a launch of ISS progress 89 also known as progress ms28 ISS cargo resupply mission on a August 15th from bonor cosmod drom in Kazakhstan making 5.8% of the pie also that mission marked the 181st flight for a progress spacecraft on the other hand Japan has four launches so far making 2. 6% of the pi with a recent H3 d22s launch vehicle on its second launch for this year for a mission named Advanced Land observing satellite 4 that is al-4 mission on 1st of July meanwhile India and Iran entered the frey with India having three launches with recent launch of is Rose sslv small satellite launch vehicle flight three mission on August 16th marking India's third mission of 2024 taking 1.9% share of the pie and Iran having two launches making 1.3% of the P also it is worth mentioning this year's first successful orbital launch was made by India well as we can see from this pie chart it is a tight competition but the United States and China are clearly leading the space race this year so now we have this pie chart showing 2024 orbital launches by rocket variations including today's launch so let's have a look and let me break it down for you the green slice of the pie represents the Falcon 9 rocket the true power horse and standout of this year with 83 launches including one from today it leads the back holding the largest share of 52.5% which accounts for over half of the total next up we have rocket Labs electron which has completed 10 successful launches this year representing 6.3% of the pi this includes its recent 52nd overall orbital launch for capella space on the A Sky Full of SARS mission with the previous 50th electron launch on no time to lose Mission rocket lab has reached its 50th launch faster than any commercially developed rocket in history currently it's holding the title previously owned by SpaceX Falcon 9 also we have Ros Cosmos so us two rockets with eight launes so far this year which is 5.1% of the pi then we got this China's Long March 2 C and Long March 2D also known as C CZ 2C and CZ 2D Rockets the long Mar 2C has four launches making 2.5% of the pi and the CZ 2D long Mar 2D has five launches with 3.2% of the pie lastly we have this pink slice another biggest slice of the pie leveled others which is a mix of different Rockets including Aran 6 Falcon heavy Atlas 5 Delta 4 heavy Vulcan centor is Ros gslv Mark 2 and PS pslv DL Japan's H3 and h2a Iran's sorg and cam 100 Russia's angara A5 China's gravity 1 long Mar 7A and others the names are not exhaustive and I'm not taking all the Nam here but they got 48 launches in total which is 30.4% of the pi today's launch marks the 157th orbital launch globally e e e e e as we are having some time before the lift off of Starling 9-5 Mission let's just discuss a little bit about the PO Dawn Mission the Polaris program by SpaceX is an ambitious series of missions aimed at advancing human space exploration and supporting humanitarian causes the program kicks off with Polaris Dawn set to launch on September 1st as of now although it is not yet being confirmed by SpaceX using the Falcon 9 and dragon spacecraft this Mission will attempt the first commercial space walk and push the boundaries of human space flight by traveling farther from Earth than any Mission since Apollo following this Polaris 2 will build upon the learnings of Polaris Dawn Mission continuing to use the Falcon 9 and dragon the the final mission Polaris Tre will Mark the first human space flight on SpaceX Starship a significant step toward making life multiplanetary beyond space exploration the Polaris program also aims to raise funds and awareness for S Children's Research Hospital ensuring no child dies in the dawn of life this dual focus on technological advancement and humanitarian efforts underscore SpaceX vision of a future human future where SpaceX exploration benefits all of humanity the Polaris Dawn Mission will utilize a flight proven Falcon 9 booster for its fourth flight launching from historic launch complex 39a at kedy Space Center this site has been pivotal in space exploration hosting Apollo and space shuttle missions the mission is set to last up to 5 days with an orbital inclination of 51.6 De which is a common angle for Missions to the International Space Station due to optimal ground coverage and accessibility the mission will involve complex orbital Maneuvers starting with targeting an apoi of 100 1,400 km this dragon mission will take advantage of Falcon 9 and dragon's maximum performance endeavoring to fly higher than any dragon mission to date and farther than humans being traveled since the end of Apollo program in 1972 Falcon 9 will launch dragon and the crew from launch complex 39a at NASA's Kenedy Space Center in Florida to an elliptical orbit with an apoi of 1,200 kilm and per of 190 km after verification of a healthy vehicle dragons Draco engines will fire to raise the spacecraft's epoi to an altitude of 1,400 km where Dragon will remain for several several orbits before lowering to a coasting eliptical orbit with an EPO of 700 kilomet and per of 190 kilm for the remainder of the missions including The Space Walk activities before preparing for the re-entry if it succeeds Polaris Dawn will be the first non-government mission to perform a space walk but not only that it will do that about 700 kilm that is 435 miles above Earth now put it into perspective the International Space Station orbits Earth at about 400 km where the radiation is less intense it will also orbit Earth through regions of a highly charged belt of radiations these are there are two of these vanen belt and inner and out of one Val and radiation bu is a Zone of energetic charg particles most of which originate from the solar wind that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily created the bels are named after James Van Allen who is often credited with their Discovery Earth's two main B vanen belts extends from an altitude of 4 640 to 58,000 km above the surface the inner Van Allen belt extends typically from an altitude of 1,000 km to 12,000 km above the Earth whereas the outer belt begins at an altitude of 13,000 to 6,000 km above the Earth's surface Polaris Dawn's orbit will sort through a region called the South Atlantic an anomaly here the lowest most of Earth's two Van Allen belts comes closest to Earth with high concentration of electrons and energetic protons the van Al belts are harmful to humans if exposed for prolonged periods the crew's expected radiation dosage over just 5 days in this environment is equivalent to 3 months about the ISS well let me just remind you we are discussing the polariz dawn mission in while as because the lift of time of the Starling 9-5 mission is being adjusted by SpaceX now currently they are targeting for 11:54 p.m. Pacific time which will be 2:54 a.m. eastern time and 6:54 a.m. UTC well let's just discuss about the Polaris objectives flying higher than any previous dragon mission to date and reaching the highest Earth orbit ever flown while moving through the portions of the van alment radiations at an orbital altitude of 1,400 km of apoi from Earth's surface or more than three times higher than the International Space Station this will be the highest altitude of any human space flight mission in more than half century since Apollo program and with that Gillis and Isaac man's Eva that is the extra vehicular activity at a plan 435 mil 300 km m in an altitude will seize several world records that will be having three times higher than the ISS it will be the highest Eva ever in Earth orbit smashing an altitude record of 850 miles that is 1,370 kilm set by gini 11 astronauts char conard and Richard Gordon in September 1966 the Polaris Dawn Mission will also attempt the first ever commercial space work as mentioned before this will take place at an eliptical orbit of 700 km above Earth in newly developed SpaceX Eva suits during The Space Walk The Crew will conduct a series of tests that will prod provide necessary data that will allow SpaceX teams to produce and scale for future long duration missions the crew worked with SpaceX Engineers throughout suit development testing various iterations for mobility and performance also the team conducted operations inside vacuum Chambers to validate pre- breath program protoc protocols and the Readiness of the EPA suits aged 30 years 242 days on the planned date of the Eva Sarah Gillis will also became the youngest human to space walk eclipsing first ever space walker Soviet C Cosmonaut Alex leonov who was 30 years 292 days old when he floated outside the vot 2 capsule in March 1965 jointly with Ana Manan Sarah GIS will also fly to the highest altitude ever attained by a woman they will more than double the 358 miles reached by astronauts Kathy Kathy Thorton Nancy curri and Megan Mac Arthur across three hble Space Telescope repair flights between 1993 to 209 Al also the PO polarized Dawn Mission will conduct laser based satellite communication testing using optical links between the dragon spacecraft and stalling satellites the Polaris Dawn crew will conduct nearly 40 experiments for critical scientific research designed to advance our knowledge of human health both on Earth and during future long duration space flights let's take a look at the on orbit timeline for the Polaris Dawn Mission flight day one will be the launch day the crew will get into space in about 10 minutes after the launch about an hour after getting there they will start the pre- breath protocol which soon after raise the peak apoi while passing through inner regions of Earth's Van Allen radiation belt that will bring us to the flight day two where Anam men and will read the book she authored a book named sises from space then they will lower to the cruise Orbit on that point they will Begin The Space Walk preparation performing Mobility test checking out the space suits and configur configuring the cabin of the Dragon spacecraft now coming to flight day three which is the most important day of this Mission the extra vehicular activity day that is The Space Walk day after the crew wakes up they will have several hours of preparation including final cargo configurations preparing biomedical monitoring devices for the space work getting into the space suits they will perform a suit leak check and then perform the Eva we will be streaming the entire event so do join us the live stream is already being scheduled you can check out the homepage of Astro yers Channel where you can find out the Stream now coming to flight day four the Polaris Dawn crew will conduct a styling demonstration the crew will have some checkouts and then perform a series of demonstrations at as a part of this test I'm not sure but hopefully we will have a live stream for that as well so stay tuned with us now coming to flight day 5 it is the final full day on Orbit on the day crew will be wrapping up all that research that they will be performing weaved in every single day of the mission from the very start also they will be PR preparing for the re-entry and that brings us to the flight day six having space suits on they will re-enter through Earth's atmosphere and then splash down off Coast of Florida at one of the SpaceX s sites and will be recovered by SpaceX recovery vessel well that's it for now for today we don't want to show everything today because we want to keep some surprises for you guys on that Polaris Dawn Mission launch live stream coming back to staring group 9-5 mission e e e e Falcon 9 that's supporting today's mission is the world's first orbital class reusable two stage rocket which is 70 M tall and 3.7 M feet excuse me 3.7 M white designed for Reliable and Safe Transportation of the satellites cargo and people into Earth orbit and Beyond let's learn about our very own Falcon 9 in details at the very top of the rocket is the play Road fairing made of a carbon composite material with a height of 13.1 m or 43 ft and 5.2 M or 17.1 ft in diameter the fairing is a protective shell that houses all of the spacecraft and shields them from the aerodynamic Heating and Mechanical stresses that happens as we ride through Earth's atmosphere the aerodynamic shape of the fairing also contributes to Falcon's overall efficiency reducing drag as we accelerate through the lower parts of the Earth's atmosphere would like to welcome Paulo Silva thanks for joining us and thanks for supporting us by subscribing to us hopefully we will meet up to your expectations and right now we hope that you will be enjoying this stream and we'll find this stream informative for you well let me come back where I was left so we were discussing about the fairing of Falcon 9 the aerodynamic shape of the fairing also contributes to Falcon 9's overall efficiency as mentioned before reducing the drag as we accelerate through the lower parts of the Earth's atmosphere but once we get to the vacuum of space those two fairing halfes separate exposing the payload within and then those fairing halves will fall back to Earth where SpaceX recovered them to be refurbished and reused on future flights in case of a crude or cargo missions the payload fairing is replaced with dragon spacecraft where Dragon is capable of carrying up to seven people and Cargo in the spacecraft specialized section or boot together in addition dragon can carry Cargo in the spacecrafts unpressurized trunk which can accommodate secondary beay roads we will be seeing this Dragon to carrying seven people when the Starliner crew with crew N9 will be returning in the February next year as we know the Starliner spacecraft will be returning uncrewed as declared by NASA now here is a short video of a fairing separation test conducted by SpaceX at NASA's Glenn Plumbrook station which offers the world's largest vacuum chamber this video is slowed down for better viewing experience since the event happens at four times the speed of a bullet or you can say 10 times the speed of sound you can just imagine the speed at which it happens hope you enjoyed enjoyed the short clip of the fairing separation now coming to Falcon 9 right below the fairing we got our second stage that has a single Merlin vacuum engine or mbac engine which can produce 981 Kon of thrust and that will ignite shortly after the stage separation to take the payloads to their target orbits also it can be restarted multiple times to place multiple payloads in different orbits as we see in case of SpaceX right share missions and it will be fired twice on today's flight it will ignite a third time after the deployment of the Starling satellites for a deorbit burn to drive the upper stage back into the Earth's atmosphere where it will burn up to help eliminate the risk of any unnecessary space debris it is a modified Merlin engine only equipped with large nozzle which is optimized for Burns in vacuum of space which can produce slightly more than 22 million pounds of thrust and the M engine burns the same propellent mix as the first stage that is kerosene that is the r rocket grade kosine rp1 and liquid oxygen right below the second stage we got the inter stage inter stage is a composite structure consist in of an aluminium honeycom Coe which is surrounded by carbon fiber it is where the Merlin vacuum's nozzle and the interstage is what connects the two stages inter stage also houses the center Pusher mechanism that separates the first and second stages during 2 and a half minutes into the flight it consists of Deployable Hypersonic grid fins which are titanium winglets that provide orientation and stability for the Falcon 9 as it comes back through the atmosphere located at the upper part of the interstage are three mechanical latches that connect to Falcon 9's second stage after the main engine cut off of the first stage Hy pressure helium is used to release these latches ensuring a smooth separation through pneumatic pushers now below the inter stage we got our four stage also referred to as the booster the booster makes up bottom 2/3 of the vehicle which is mainly aluminium lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen and Rocket grade kerosene propellent and it's got 9 M 1D engines at its base on the top right of your screen is the minin 1D engine and below that is the m vacuum engine or the mbac engine fcon 9 generates more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust at sea level and those engines do the bulk of work to get falcon9 off the ground from the Launchpad into the thinner part of Earth's atmosphere the nine m in engines on the first stage are gradually throttled near the end of first stage flight to limit launch vehicle acceleration as a rocket mass decreases with the burning of fuel these engines are also used to reorient the first stage prior to re-entry and to De accelerate the vehicle for landing placed symmetrically around the base of f 9 first stage are the four Landing legs made of carbon fiber with aluminium honey gum they are stored at the base of the vehicle and deploy just prior to the landing now let's unpack some key features and Milestones of this incredible spacecraft in a pictorial form here is a quick overview of Falcon 9 for your reference as you can see from this victorial representation of Falcon 9 at the very top we are having the [Music] fairing where the payloads are being encapsulated just below the fairing we have the second stage which is the mlin mbac engine optimized for the vacuum of space also the payload is being connected with the second stage now below the second stage we have the inter stage where the mvac engine that is second stage engines are being housed also inter stage is what which connects the second stage with the first stage below the inter stage we have our first stage also referred as booster and just below the first stage we have the landing legs which gets deployed just prior to the landing of the first stage and lastly at the very bottom of the first stage we have our nine moldin 1D engines as mentioned before this 9 milon 1D engines all together produce 1.7 million thrust at the sea level hopefully I could explain the Falcon 9 in a good and a detailed way now let's move on to today's Mission details here is the payload details for Starling group 9-5 Mission today's Mission launch marks the 59th dedicated starlink launch of this year just for a quick reference the first launch of 21 Starling version 2 mini satellites also known as Starling group 6-1 mission took place from cap canabal Florida from the pad space launch complex 40 on February 27 in 2023 also would like to mention a quick fun fact at the very Inception two identical Starling satellite actually the test satellites called microsat 2 a and microsat 2B were launched launched on 22nd February in 2018 upon orbital deployment they were renamed to Tintin a and Tintin B so Tintin a and Tintin B are the first staring satellites to be launched Starling satellites are built at SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmont Washington today's launch consists of 21 version 2 mini satellites which includes 13 dedicated Satellites with direct to cell capabilities the version two variant of starlink is too large to fit inside the Falcon 9 Fairing and is and is meant to be launched by Starship to address this issue SpaceX modified the original version to blueprint into a smaller more compact one named version to mini SpaceX also indicated they would build satellites of the second generation constellation in two different but technically identical form factors one with the physical structures tailored to launch on Falcon 9 that is version 2 mini and another tailored for the launch on Starships that is version two each Starling satellite is equipped with powerful five Advanced Ku band phased array antennas and three dual band parabolic antennas utilizing Ka and eband to provide increased capacity in a whole this antennas utilizes ku ka and eband frequencies allowing Starling to provide high band withd connectivity that is four times more capacity per satellite than earlier versions each satellite features a dual solar area with a size of 52.5 square m which unfolds to a wingspan of 100 ft also the two solar arrays are Aeron neutral which enable faster on orbit Maneuvers so that it can avoid collisions with other spacecraft and space junks autonomously it has a high capacity battery to provide the power to the payloads as well each Starling satellite contains three space laser transponders that is Optical inter satellite links or is LS for intercommunications operating at up to 200 gbps which together across the constellation form a global internet mesh that can connect customers anywhere in the world also this enables the spacecraft to transmit data without local ground stations providing truly Go Global coverage each Starling version 2 mini satellite weighs nearly 800 kg that is 1,763 lb Starling satellites are equipped with efficient ion Hall effect thrusters powered by Argan which enables Starling satellites to orbit raise maneuver in space and deorbit at the end of their useful life styling is the first Krypton propelled spacecraft ever flown latter switch to argon hall effect thrusters for cost Effectiveness also on switching to argon starlink is the first argon propelled spacecraft ever flown in space now with this switch in propulsion it raises the question of how much actually the switch affects the cost and to answer that question relative to Krypton the Argan required to F Starling version 2 satellite will be practically free to put into perspective foiling its next constellation of almost 30,000 version 2 satellites could cost SpaceX less than fueling 4 4,000 version one satellites which were based on Krypton which really marks a huge difference and also SpaceX claims that its second generation thrusters using Argan has 2.4 times the thrust and 1.5 times the specific impulse of the previously Krypton propelled thrusters today's payload will be placed in an orbit with an altitude of 293 km with an inclination of 53.1 16° but this configuration does not apply to every Starling satellite as as we know Starling satellites are placed in different configurations based on their group stlink uses custom be navigation sensors named star tracker that surveys the starts to determine each satellite's location altitude and orientation for best possible broadband throughput Starling satellite contains four reaction Wheels providing agile attitude control for the vehicle the hot spare conation ensures High reliability operation and its aluminium flywheel is fully Demis at the end of life also worth mentioning the Starling satellites are equipped with an onboard autonomous collision avoidance system for avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and space junk autonomously which utilizes US Department of Defense debris tracking database SpaceX direct to sell satellite is a technology developed by Starling team in easy words it's like having a cell phone tower in space this technology allows your cell phone to connect directly to satellites imagine we are in a rem remote area where there is no cell tower nearby normally we would not get any signal on our phones but with direct to sales technology our phone can get a signal directly from a starling satellite overhead you don't need to make any changes to your existing LTE phone it is designed to work with common LTE standards with absolute no changes to Hardware firmware or special special apps required whether you are on land Lakes Coastal Waters or even in the air as long as you can see the sky you can get a signal it provides connectivity in remote regions as it aims zero dead zones around the world giving you peace of mind when you need it the most recently we saw that Starling made its first video call on X using unmodified mobile phones connected to Starling direct to sell satellites earlier we witnessed textual Communications via these satellites now Starling is planning to launch the service with T-Mobile later this year e now let's go through a quick understanding of Starling cision avoidance system it is quite fascinating to know how despite having so many sat lights around the earth they managed to stay safe and avoid collisions recently SpaceX reports that the Starling satellites performed 275 cion avoidance Maneuvers each day and in the past 6 months starting satellite performed nearly 50,000 collision avoidance Maneuvers so let's learn how to do it SpaceX designed the Starling satellites orbit raising and orbit lowering reference trajectories with a Time optimal path planning algorithm the algorithm includes additional constraints to ensure that the Starling satellite always remain at large and safe distance from space stations other space crafts space junks and from other Starling satellites as an additional safety measure Starling screening system constantly monitors the satellit plan plant reference trajectories against space stations other spacecrafts space junks and other Starling satellites as well the system alerts the starlink operator immediately when a potential conjunction is detected and the reference trajectories are replanned to change the geometry of the encounter and avoid the conjunction whenever possible each St link launch typically includes enough satellites to fill several orbital planes for this reason a train of satellite is usually divided into smaller trains that depart from parking Orbit on different dates to Target specific orbital planes which is also a part of pre-planned conjunction avoidance now let's go through a quick comparision of latency between starlink and geost stationary satellites recently we had an update that Starling set a new record for internal median latency of 28 milliseconds they are now aiming to reduce the median latency of starting internet in the US to under 20 milliseconds you know the internet that comes from satellites most of the time it's from a single satellite that's orbiting about 35,7 186 kilm from Earth that is in a GEOS synus orbit because it is so far away the time it takes for data to go back and forth what we call latency is pretty high this makes it tough to do things like streaming movies playing online games making video calls or realtime data exchange now let's talk about Starling it's like a big team of thousands of satellites that are much closer to us just about 550 km from Earth's surface they are all over the place covering the whole globe and because they are closer the latency is way lower to put it into perspective think of 25 milliseconds of latency compared to 600 and plus milliseconds of latency you can see on your screen what is the number of round trips in case on Starling satellites compared to a geostationary satellite that's a huge difference so in simple terms star Link's lower orbit makes it a game changer for starlink internet and this could mean smoother video calls lack free online gaming and other activities that requires a lot of data and where the realtime data exchange is a priority now take let's take a look at the flight record for the booster supporting today's starlink 9-5 Mission today's supporting booster weight tail number 1081 has seven previous flights in its C actually it's you pardon me it's eight previous flights in it record including missions like SpaceX crew 7 for NASA under commercial crew program which Mark the 11th overall crew orbital flight of a crew Dragon spacecraft CRS 29 that is commercial resupply service mission to the International Space Station the ninth flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract then it supported NASA's Pace Mission which stands for Plankton aerosol Cloud ocean ecosystem which is a NASA Earth observing satellite Mission next up the transporter 10 mission is SpaceX right share Mission which launched 53 satellites also this booster supported European space agency's Earth care mission which is a joint European and Japanese satellite right under European space agency's Earth Explorer program and recently it supported a classified nr-1 186 mission for national ronance office Additionally the booster also supported two Starling missions now awaiting its ninth flight just minutes away the last mission supported by today's booster was the nr-1 186 mission on June 29th of this year today's Mission will be the fifth consecutive launch of this booster form Pat space launch complex 4 East also today the booster will have its fourth landing on a drone ship to date with previous five land Landings in its record now a request for you guys hitting that like button helps YouTube's algorithm cat the drift and bring more space lovers and Rocket Buffs our way helping us to build a community with amazing space enthusiasts like you your support means the world to which inspires us to work more hard to provide life coverages filled with stats and thorough insights so please consider liking this stream now let's have a look at the bar graphs presenting number of Falcon 9 launches each year before today's launch SpaceX completed 82 successful launches of Falcon 9 so far this year as part of its Milestone with the recent starlink 8-6 Mission launch back on August 28th the launch marked the 13th 13th launch since the starlink 9-3 Mission failure but unfortunately the booster supporting that mission with tail number 1062 failed to land successfully during starink 8-6 mission marking the first unsuccessful Landing attempt for the Drone ship a short full of gravitar to date now with the recent Starling 8-6 Mission launch SpaceX is having 21 more launches than the launches made in 2022 now with today's launch of Starling group 9-5 Mission the bar graph shows 83 Falcon 9 launches so far this year which is 22 more than the launches made in the year 2022 they have already done more than the half as many launches as they did all of of last year and it's been 8 months of this year just 13 more launches and SpaceX will be reaching the same number of launches made in last year as SpaceX remains on course to achieve their ambitious Target of 140 to 148 launches by this year's end e well guess SpaceX has again adjusted their lift of time now SpaceX is targeting a lift of time for starlink 9-5 Mission at 4:41 a.m. eastern time which will be 1:41 a.m. Pacific time well would like to welcome David Mahan sorry uh we couldn't see your question on the chat well as I mentioned before that while launching Starling satellites generally it consist of enough satellites to fill several orbital planes in one go so in that case SpaceX is first making the starting satellites to be on a parking orbit and from there they are slowly deploying the satellites to the the specific orbital planes and as of now we know that initially they started with such huge number of satellites to be launched with each launch but now as those orbital planes are having enough satellites and they don't need to be having such huge number of satellites to be launched as they did previously so for that they reduce the number of of satellites to be launched once again the lift of time for Starling 9-5 mission is now being adjusted by SpaceX RTO is targeted for 148 amm Pacific time which will be 4:48 a.m. eastern time and 8:48 a.m. UTC it is the third time they adjusted their lift of time for today's launch so it seems that they will be launching the starlink 8-10 Mission earlier than the vanderberg flight of Starling 9-5 mission e well with that we will wrap up our coverage for now as because there is a huge time for now for the Starling 9-5 mission to launch also with the adjustment of the lift of time being made for by SpaceX for 9-5 Mission it seems like now they will be launching the starlink 8- 10 Mission earlier than the starlink 9-5 Mission so be sure to check out our social media handle for latest happenings in space industry and 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