The true beauty of SpaceX is that they've made landing their boosters boring (almost). This makes their competitors throwing them away seem stupid.
It also shows how clever it was to livestream so much of what they do. So many people have seen a rocket booster land. Children today will hear that ULA doesn't land their boosters and ask "why not?".
It really is quite incredible how boring this has become. I was chatting with a friend who used to follow all of this stuff closely with me at the beginning of the landing attempts. He wasn’t tuning in this morning (US east coast) because he didn’t find it exciting without the almost 50/50 chance the Stage 1 booster would RUD on landing.
Starhopper 150M hop window opened today. Hoping to see some action there as that seems to be the new hotbed of SpaceX excitement. Not that I wish for a RUD but it’s far more likely to see something crazy on these early experiments making it more fun to watch.
An interesting detail mentioned during the webcast was that SpaceX have already performed initial testing of inter-satellite links on a pair of Starlink satellites.
I love that the presenter is a female engineer. How inspiring this must be for millions of girls around the world. Hopefully it encourages more girls to take on engineering to help provide a better balance of gender in the field.
Thats becoming one massive constellation https://space-search.io/?search=starlink
I've had so many outages this month with Cox. Can't wait for this project to start rolling out to consumers.
They nailed the landing of the booster and I yawned.
Amazing.
At 9:33 she says "100 Megabytes/second". Probably megabits/second. Still cool.
What will be the speed of the internet down and up link when fully operational? The video said 100Mbps at low latency. Do they expect more afterward?
The satellite deployment seemed a bit wonky at the end of the video. Like they were tangled. Hope it went ok.
So, what about upload speeds?
Everyone is commenting saying how mundane it has become to see the landings. Hence you might enjoy this official SpaceX Blooper reel from 2017 that shows the numerous spectacular failures that they worked through.
Innovation is a type of gamble. People forget that.
"SpaceX: How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
(and regular reminder that these things are 12-storey high explosive tubes)