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Found a meme I made a long time ago

Falcon 9 is vertical at pad 4E in California ahead of tomorrow’s launch of the Space Development Agency's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission. Liftoff is targeted for 1:17 a.m. PT → spacex.com/launches/sda-t… Source: @SpaceX

All systems are looking good, and weather is favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the Space Development Agency's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission from California → spacex.com/launches/sda-t… Source: @SpaceX

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... wait... wait, what the hell!

Dragon and the Crew-12 astronauts are set to depart the Space Station on Wednesday, October 7 → spacex.com/launches/crew12 Source: @SpaceX

@SpaceX flight14. Starlink

Constant communication is what makes autonomy like this safe. Early contact lets us take maneuvering responsibility, publish ephemeris faster than ground radar can catalog the object, and deorbit and keep commanding through demise if needed We treat early communications as a requirement, not a nice-to-have Source: RT @Starlink

However, we cannot mitigate risk when another operator maneuvers without sharing a predicted trajectory that includes the burn. This is the biggest risk in LEO Source: RT @Starlink