Piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=1pJ9JzZhuy4?si=2ASu8Np4RMNvAiiV

Starlink Group 8-8 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2024-06-08 12:58 UTC, or 2024-06-08 05:58 local time (PDT). Booster 1061-21 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAwMpsriOU
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF6QiWH1hWA
• NASASpaceflight:
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTpt17dbBOE
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1799424068502118689
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxv62BYBebk

First launch into a new shell!

Starlink Group 10-1 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-06-08 01:56 UTC, or 2024-06-07 21:56 local time (EDT). Booster 1069-16 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlQvnnCGl4
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMQWhL7q80
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-gIWUxtuo
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPeBoR-aT4
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1799257849773912153
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOCFXbPPnI

Reddit User maxfagin created this charts from the telemetry data of the live stream

Piped Link: https://piped.video/watch?v=8m0TY6i1Kuo?si=LEfbayCSWeTgP3bZ

Another happy landing. I can't believe starship managed to land gently after burning half the flap off!

https://youtu.be/rXRVtt8M9oY

Well folks, it's time for Starship IFT-4!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-06-06 12:50 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-06-06 07:50 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2024-06-06 12:00 to 2024-03-14 14:00 (120 minutes) | | Launch site | OLM-A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. | | Booster | B11 | | Ship | S29 | | Booster landing | Soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkQAU5sLck | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VESowgMbjA | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFkqZF-Ss7o | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkhv4fvOgA | | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49s4fiyM3A | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiMpEWtojmY | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798689697184764071 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-la4IqYlA |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch this year

☑️ 4th Starship Full Stack launch overall

☑️ 60th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 371st SpaceX launch overall (including Starship hops)

☑️ 2nd launch from OLM-A this year

☑️ 83 days, 22:35:00 turnaround for this pad

Mission Details 🚀

• SpaceX website (current): Starship's Fourth Flight Test
• SpaceX website (archived 2024-06-05): Starship's Fourth Flight Test

Link to Starship Dev thread

TL;DW: Zack posits that the additional mass of the hot stage ring pushes the total mass of the booster close to (or over) the limit of what the booster can land with, based on the amount of propellant which can be stored in the current design of the landing tanks.

The video is much more detailed, and definitely worth a watch!

Infographic by u/jnpha in The Other Place, reposted with permission.

Interesting to see which months and days are the most popular, and which days of the year have had no launches (so far).

Starlink Group 8-5 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-06-05 02:16 UTC, or 2024-06-04 10:16 local time (EDT). Booster 1067-20 to land on Just Read the Instructions.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYgdd1HpKqQ
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiXEv-U6Zw
• NASASpaceflight:
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujNrPBEPl0Q
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798175816880394271
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbOCuAOdDA

https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/1796736037739270432

This landing is special because the recovery team just chattered our fastest ever landing to landing turn. Roughly 84 hours between two booster touchdowns on ASOG. It traveled roughly 640 nautical miles in that time with only 3.5 hrs at the dock to drop off a rocket.

Unreal!!! Well done recovery team!!!

The previous record was 102 hours.

Some of the people selected for dearMoon spoke out on social media after Maezawa announced the cancellation. “We had no prior knowledge of this possibility,” said Tim Dodd, a YouTube personality known as “Everyday Astronaut.” “I voiced my opinions, even before the announcement, that it was improbable for dearMoon to happen in the next few years.”

He added he was “extremely disappointed” by the decision. “I slowly allowed myself to envision a trip to the Moon one little bit by little bit.”

“We have been dropped, apparently due to impatience,” said Rhiannon Adam, an Irish photographer who was the only woman on the prime crew for dearMoon, who offered a sharper critique of Maezawa’s decision. “As someone with a critical brain, much of this doesn’t make sense, particularly with regard to timeline. I never believed we were going in 2023, or 2024.”

She said she and others selected for dearMoon were willing to wait but were not consulted by Maezawa before he announced the cancellation. “I am left doubting the project’s integrity, and feel used.”

Infographic source: rykllan

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1796956135758389521

B1062 becomes the first booster to fly 21 times. B1061, B1067, and B1063 are close behind at 20, 19, and 18 flights.

Feed bad for Everyday Astronaut :(

Source: https://dearmoon.earth

Starlink Group 6-64 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-06-01 02:37 UTC, or 2024-05-31 22:37 local time (EDT). Booster 1076-14 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUD7A0a4Dc
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_GVyc3DVY
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T40HpZ3Jj3g
• The Launch Pad:
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1796731267582730649
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj8zzvStmK4

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