r/SpaceX JCSAT-18/KACIFIC1 Media Thread [Videos, Images, GIFs, Articles go here!]
It's that time again, as per usual, we like to keep things as tight as possible, so if you have content you created to share, whether that be images of the launch, videos, GIF's, etc, they go here.As usual, our standard media thread rules apply:All top level comments must consist of an image, video, GIF, tweet or article. If you're an amateur photographer, submit your content here. Professional photographers with subreddit accreditation can continue to submit to the front page, we also make exceptions for outstanding amateur content! Those in the aerospace industry (with subreddit accreditation) can likewise continue to post content on the front page. Mainstream media articles should be submitted here. Quality articles from dedicated spaceflight outlets may be submitted to the front page. Direct all questions to the live launch thread.

Submitted December 17, 2019 at 12:27AM by ElongatedMuskrat
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Stunner of a Falcon 9 launch this evening. Here’s my long exposure photograph of JCSAT-18/Kacific1.
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Submitted December 17, 2019 at 01:30AM by johnkphotos
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SpaceX on Twitter: "Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief narrowly missed catching the fairing halves—team is working to recover them for potential use on a future flight"
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1206741550694158338?s=20

Submitted December 17, 2019 at 02:16AM by youfoundalec
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4k liftoff views: Falcon 9 | CRS-19, launch photographer behind-the-scenes video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDw9RZyWhY8&feature=youtu.be

Submitted December 16, 2019 at 08:28PM by learntimelapse
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Falcon9 JCSat-18 made for a spectacular launch against Monday night's cloud cover - full album in comments
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Submitted December 17, 2019 at 05:34AM by spiel2001
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JSCAT 18/Kacific1 Recovery Discussion and Updates Thread
Hello! It is I, u/RocketLover0119 back hosting the recovery thread for the JSCAT 18/Kacific1 mission. As of now, core B1056.3 has been safed to the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, fairing catch was narrowly missed this attempt.​B1056.3 on the deck of OCISLY following its third launch and landingAbout the mission" Boeing built the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 satellite, equipping it with two unique payloads. The JCSAT-18 satellite was built for SKY Perfect JSAT, one of the largest providers of multichannel pay TV broadcast services in Japan, which operates the largest satellite communications business in Asia. The JCSAT-18 satellite will provide Ku-band coverage and improve mobile and broadband services for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation customers in the Asia-Pacific region, including the far eastern part of Russia. The satellite features technologies in the power subsystem to achieve highest efficiencies, and it also features command and data handling technologies to provide a more secure spacecraft. Boeing has built 13 satellites, including two high-throughput satellites, for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and its predecessors since the 1980s. Kacific1 is a next-generation geostationary satellite operating in the Ka-band frequency spectrum. Its 56 high-throughput spot beams will place capacity over selected regions in South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Deployed to a geostationary orbital position above Asia Pacific, Kacific1 will transmit to stateof-the-art gateways, designed and built by Kratos. Kacific1 will connect previously unserved or under-served populations with affordable, high-speed broadband for healthcare, education, government services, businesses, and disaster relief. Its services will stimulate economic growth and provide greater access to the internet. "-JSCAT-18/Kacific1 Mission Press KitStatusShipDescriptionStatusOf Course I Still Love youOne of 2 east coast droneships, Ship which Stage 1's land on.Core safed to deck, En-Route to Port CanaveralHawkOCISLY Tug BoatEn-Route to Port CanaveralGO QuestOCISLY Support ShipEn-Route to Port CanaveralGO Ms. TreeOne of 2 fairing catchersEn-Route to Port CanaveralGO Ms. ChiefOne of 2 fairing catchersEn-Route to Port CanaveralUpdates17th December, 201911:30Thread goes live!ResourcesMarine TrafficVessel FinderSpaceXFleet resource page by u/Gavalar_SpaceXFleet TwitterReplay of MissionLaunch Discussion and Updates Thread

Submitted December 18, 2019 at 12:48AM by RocketLover0119
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4k slowmo from JCSAT-18/Kacific1 : Some of our best up close high-speed footage with audio
https://youtu.be/F-9ANTobgS0

Submitted December 18, 2019 at 12:42AM by learntimelapse
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The JCSAT-18/KACIFIC1 launch from GOES-16. The blue plume is water vapor from the launch of the Falcon 9.
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Submitted December 18, 2019 at 01:20AM by jwakey24
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SpaceX In-Flight Abort Test Launch Date Update [NET 11 Jan]
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Submitted December 18, 2019 at 06:38PM by ethan829
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US Northern Cmd: “Gen. O'Shaughnessy, CDR @NORADCommand & @USNorthernCmd, visited @SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA, Dec. 16. He toured facilities, watched a satellite launch and met with SpaceX leaders, including @ElonMusk, about our #HomelandDefense mission & possible future #partnerships with industry.”
https://twitter.com/usnortherncmd/status/1207005105007943680

Submitted December 18, 2019 at 09:43PM by dethangll
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Future demand prediction for SpaceX, is it possible to push beyond 30 customer launches per year?
Total commercial launches this year has fallen down to 11 from last year's 20 launches (launches where SpaceX is not the customer)is it the limit of the market? in some interview the Ms Shotwell said that customers were not ready in time, so they are shifted to 2020 Sourcebut still the ceiling seems to be around 20 customer launches per year (starlink will be extra), can we expect this ceiling to expand in 2022-2025 at cost of ULA or Arianne, as their pre existing contracts get over.

Submitted December 18, 2019 at 03:25PM by nolanfan2
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Building a rocket is hard. But building a parachute is boggling
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Submitted December 19, 2019 at 04:20PM by ethan829
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SpaceX gets OK to re-space Starlink orbits - SpaceNews.com
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Submitted December 20, 2019 at 05:33AM by Jeramiah_Johnson
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Boeing Starliner suffers "off-nominal insertion", will not visit space station
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Submitted December 20, 2019 at 03:28PM by rustybeancake
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SpaceX engineers were at the Cali Science Center in LA looking at the Endeavour shuttle
I was talking to Bill while standing underneath Endeavour at the California Science Center in LA this last week. Bill was a structural engineer on the shuttle program as well as the SSMEs. We had been geeking out about space stuff for a solid 2 hours and Bill was complaining about ULA "Throwing his engines into the ocean" when I asked about how reentry heating effected the gaps in the bottom of the shuttle where control surfaces and landing gear panels all met up. He got excited and he told me that not only had a large group of 20+ SpaceX engineers been there last week but that they had been almost exclusively looking at the spots where the control surfaces joined the rest of the structure on the shuttle. I mentioned to Bill that they probably were cheating off his homework for the starship's control surfaces and his face lit up like it finally clicked as to why they took so many photos of the seams.Sorry for formatting I'm on my phone figured this group would enjoy this information more than most. If you have the chance go to the science center and talk to the retired engineers that are floating around. They absolutely love talking to people about their baby.

Submitted December 20, 2019 at 06:15PM by frosty95
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Using ground relays with Starlink
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Submitted December 21, 2019 at 04:31AM by Hosentrager
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SpaceX poised to accelerate launch cadence with series of Starlink missions
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Submitted December 21, 2019 at 09:25PM by soldato_fantasma
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SpaceX on Twitter - "Yesterday the team completed the 10th successful multi-chute test in a row of Crew Dragon’s upgraded Mark 3 parachute design – one step closer to safely launching and landing @NASA astronauts "
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1209201762596356096

Submitted December 23, 2019 at 08:59PM by jclishman
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SpaceX on Launch Pad 39 A left their doors open this morning showing what seems to be part of a Falcon 9 first stage
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Submitted December 23, 2019 at 07:46PM by Bad_Tan_Line
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54% higher efficiency for Starlink: Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour
Debopam Bhattacherjee and Ankit Singla have a paper in the CoNEXT '19 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies that focuses on networking within satellite constellations. They explore some new topologies that promise to be an improvement over what has already been disclosed about how Starlink will work, but which could be used with the Starlink constellation."For the largest and most mature of the planned constellations, Starlink, our approach promises 54% higher efficiency under reasonable assumptions on link range, and 40% higher efficiency in even the most pessimistic scenarios."ACM Digital Library overview of the paper. Contains link to full PDF download.

Submitted December 25, 2019 at 04:51PM by benthom
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Starlink-2 Launch Campaign Thread
OverviewSpaceX's first flight of 2020 will launch the second batch of Starlink version 1 satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. It will be the third Starlink mission overall. This launch is expected to be similar to the previous Starlink launch in November of 2019, which saw 60 Starlink v1.0 satellites delivered to a single plane at a 280 km altitude. The satellites on this flight will eventually join the previously launched spacecraft in the 550 km x 53° shell via their onboard ion thrusters. Due to the high mass of several dozen satellites, the booster will land on a drone ship at a similar downrange distance to a GTO launch.Liftoff currently scheduled for:January 4, 03:23 UTC (Jan 3, 10:23 PM local)Static fireDate TBDPayload60 Starlink version 1 satellitesPayload mass60 * 260kg = 15 400kgDestination orbitLow Earth Orbit, 280km x 53° deployment expectedVehicleFalcon 9 v1.2 Block 5CoreUnknownPast flights of this coreUnknownFairing reuseUnknownFairing catch attemptExpectedLaunch siteSLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FloridaLandingASDS: 32.54722 N, 75.92306 W (628 km downrange)Mission success criteriaSuccessful separation & deployment of the Starlink Satellites.Links & Resources:Official Starlink Overview - Starlink.comLaunch Execution Forecasts - 45th Weather SquadronWatching a Launch - r/SpaceX WikiLaunch Viewing Guide for Cape Canaveral - Ben CooperSpaceX Fleet Status - SpaceXFleet.comFCC Experimental STAs - r/SpaceX wikiLaunch Maps - Google Maps by u/Raul74CzFlight Club - Launch simulation by u/TheVehicleDestroyerWe may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part, we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted, typically around one day before launch.Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.

Submitted December 26, 2019 at 05:17AM by ElongatedMuskrat
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