The team made contact with 10 of the satellites and attempted to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters, but they are in an enormously high-drag environment with their perigee, or lowest point of their elliptical orbit, only 135 km above the Earth
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 12, 2024
As such, the satellites will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and fully demise. They do not pose a threat to other satellites in orbit or to public safety.https://t.co/96M1qY6Juw
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 12, 2024
We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9.
Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot.
The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
UPDATE: The @FAANews is requiring an investigation into Starlink Group 9-3. The FAA needs to determine public safety before Falcon 9 can return to flight.
See the statement to @NASASpaceflight down below: pic.twitter.com/qS8XGORIAy
— Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) July 12, 2024
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Elon Musk is actually a criminal.
He bought Twitter so he could say a bunch of racist stuff and then say “I’m not really a criminal – I’m being politically persecuted for being anti-woke.”
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring an investigation into the in-flight failure of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it was launching a batch of Starlink internet satellites.
The second-stage engine failure occurred on Thursday evening during a routine launch of the satellites from Vandenberg space force base in Santa Barbara county, California.
Approximately an hour after the rocket took off, the rocket’s second stage, which was carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites, failed to reignite and instead deployed the satellites in a dangerously low orbit where they run the risk of burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, Reuters reported.
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Thursday’s failure occurred on the rocket’s 354th mission and marks the first Falcon 9 failure since 2015, when the rocket exploded on a launch site in Florida.
He also bought Twitter because he thinks if he can get a Republican in office by manipulating the algorithm in their favor, they will drop all these investigations and charges against him.
He has committed a lot of crimes.
You can’t run companies like he does. It’s illegal. You can’t just lie about everything and put everyone’s life at risk while you do nothing but eat cheesy French fries and play Diablo 4.
Watch how SpaceX engineers in background snicker / laugh as Musk explains to an earnest fanboi BEFORE the launch why Starship will fail; they are all in on the scam. Musk is now 3 years past his deadline to put humans on Mars. So far he’s only managed to kill marine 🐬 life. https://t.co/51z3P4EANd pic.twitter.com/8zxgAPOzMn
— Facts Chaser 🌎 🤦🏻♂️ (@Factschaser) June 7, 2024
You’ve got a lot of problems, Elon.
A lot of problems.
And I’m going to keep pressing them until I get my account back.
If you give me my account back, I’m just going to stop talking about all these crimes you’re committing.
This is a total violation of basic journalistic ethics, but honestly, I think anyone who buys a Tesla deserves to die anyway, and satellites falling out of the sky is funny to me.
Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article.