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> Today is the 7th launch of v1 satellites. SpaceX is hoping to do more than two launches per month but haven't reached that pace yet Isn't this the 8th? Jesse
by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Today is the 7th launch of v1 satellites. SpaceX is hoping to do more than two launches per month but haven't reached that pace yet
Isn't this the 8th? Jesse the Engineer said it was, too. The stage 1 is also on its 5th mission, so rad!
- modeless 6y agoThe "first" launch was v0.9 satellites. There was also an earlier launch of prototype satellites. Numbering of Starlink launches is a little confused as a result.
- Melting_Harps 6y agoYeah, Tintin 1/2, so is it 7th of 14 or 8th? Edit: stage 1 recovery success, and that was perhaps the clearest image of it landing I have ever seen and I've been watching since 2015! Also, I miss the shots of LOX images in zero G they used to do back then.
- JshWright 6y agoNo, Tintin 1 and 2 were even earlier prototypes that piggybacked on the Paz launch. There was also a full 60 satellite stack of v0.9 satellites that aren't counted towards the "production" constellation.
- Melting_Harps 6y agoAh, so that's what makes it 7th launch of 14 then? Now I remember this launch last year around this time, and some of them were not able to maintain their orbit, but weren't the majority of them operational?