ok thank you very much.
i see firefly has a plan to drop a lunar lander via falcon-9 in 2023.
i assume it will be unmanned and remote control, not sure.


The third try wasn't the charm for Astra.

The California Bay Area startup attempted its third orbital test flight today (Aug. 28), sending its two-stage Launch Vehicle 0006 skyward from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT). The rocket suffered an anomaly about 2.5 minutes after liftoff, however, and the flight was terminated.


SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft broke up shortly after liftoff on June 28. The craft disappeared behind a cloud of smoke and left behind bits of falling debris.(Image credit: NASA TV/Space.com)

An Indian rocket carrying a new Earth-observation satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered a catastrophic failure shortly after launching early Thursday (Aug. 12) from the country's Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island in eastern India. The liftoff occurred at 5:43 a.m. local time in India (8:13 p.m. EDT Aug 11/0013 GMT).


i am wondering if those aliens/ufo are shooting these things down now ?

73 and thank you
K F o G   cm88pk


From: Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 5, 2021 5:17 PM
To: Richard Tejera <saguaroastro@cox.net>
Cc: Robert Coppock <robertinorbit@webtv.net>; amsat-bb@amsat.org <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Subject: Re: [AMSAT-BB] Re: firefly rocket #1
 
Robert,

First, these were cubesats and pocketsats, not big expensive
commercial communication satellites. There was one that was once built
for $50. Have you priced a ride to space for a satellite? We will
happily build and throw away a few satellites as a necessary risk to
get that ride for free or cheap.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 5:09 PM Richard Tejera <saguaroastro@cox.net> wrote:
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> Robert, yes & Yes.
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> Rick K7TEJ
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> Sent from Mail for Windows
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> From: Robert Coppock
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> Subject: [AMSAT-BB] firefly rocket #1
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> i need to aask why they would put all that payload on an untested first time rocket ?
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> were the customers (free apparently) aware of the fact that it was rocket #1 ?
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> what was the urgency ?
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> not trying to ruffle feathers, but this makes no sense.
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