SpaceX Starlink

Liftoff is targeted for 7:15 AM Central Time from South Texas with a 75-minute window opening just before sunrise.

The Super Heavy rocket will carry, will attempt to carry [laughs] 26 larger V3 Starlink satellites to an orbit roughly 275 kilometers above the Earth.

During the approximately 10-hour mission, Starship's upper stage is expected to complete six orbits before ending the flight.

This would be Starship's 14th mission, but its first attempt to reach orbit, which is a major milestone." So we'll see.

So if everything goes as planned, Starship will circle the Earth about six times at an altitude of about 275 kilometers for about 10 hours before de-orbiting in the Pacific, this time west of Chile.

Starship will also insert 26 version three Starlink satellites into orbit.

And there will be no tower catches this time, but it is exciting that we're actually getting full orbit and full release of satellites that are actually gonna make the Starlink network a lot better.

Do you think that they're going to splash it down successfully like they did last time?

Probably.

Yeah, they basically said that if there had been a tower there in the Indian Ocean, it would've been caught.

Probably right after that we're gonna try for a tower catch.

Starlink posted, "The next generation Starlink V5 has a smaller form factor and lightweight design with greater power efficiency.

You know what I mean? It's just like if we like it, we'll use it.

We just had a Starlink company offer us a battery for the Starlink.

Oh, okay.

Fuck, I wonder if it's the same one.

I don't know.

I'll check with Emma.

But I said- that would be handy as hell because I've been putting the Starlink out on the long cable and it's a real pain in my ass.

Sitting on the bonnet.

Entering a revolutionary new era of space-based telecommunications as it targets September 22nd, just a few days away, for Starship's historic first orbital flight test, which will be Flight 14.

Pending regulatory approval, this mission kicks off the long-awaited deployment of what will be Starlink...

V3 satellites.

They're too big for the Falcon 9.

Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

And I have to tell you, Elon Musk, I called up, I said, they all want Starlink, Elon.

You couldn't get it.

And I said, you got to do me a favor.

Send me Starlink.

And he sent hundreds of phones over Starlink.

And that was what got...

Remember? Because people, they had islands.

Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

And I have to tell you, Elon Musk, I called up, I said, they all want Starlink.

Elon, you couldn't get it.

And I said, you got to do me a favor.

Send me Starlink.

And he sent hundreds of phones over Starlink.

Right.

So Trump goes on to say it was the worst management of a storm by a governor.

Well, Jesse, we're dependent on that.

I mean, from reconnaissance, surveillance, communications, you know, Starlink has become ubiquitous.

I mean, we have all this stuff, all the weather reporting.

It's all satellite stuff.

They're perfect for alternative energy production because they make a place that wasn't livable livable.

We now have internet anywhere thanks to Starlink on top of that.

We also have the ability to use grazing systems in land that really does not work well for corn, soy, beans, and potatoes.

And there's always the opportunity for some level of vegetative agriculture anywhere with the techniques that we know that can be done on a small scale.

We all look at space now, we see the impact it has on our lives.

I can't really work with this thing if I go underground and it kills me and says Starlink.

But New York, the city itself, is a place that has quite a lot of industry that it's thriving in.

So some discussion that I've had with people, it's why do we care about space? You know, so that, I think that, that, that right there is one of the big problems to your second question, you know, that kind of answers it.