“This year maybe, next year definitely” :)

I feel like we’ve been here before…

No webcast coverage of Stage 2 at the request of a customer, but Jonathan McDowell confirms that it reached orbit and that payloads were deployed:

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lneiyfswvc27

LAUNCH at 0048 UTC Apr 22 of the Bandwagon-3 mission on Falcon 9 from Canaveral, placing the South Korean DAPA defense agency’s Gunjeongchai-wiseong 4 (Reconaissance Satellite 4) in a 570 km, 45 deg orbit. Stage 1 landed at Canaveral Landing Zone 2.

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lnenxwyads2q

The Bandwagon-3 Falcon 9 should have made its deorbit burn over NW California at about 0225 UTC (7.25pm PDT) and relased the AtmosSpaceCargo Phoenix shortly after, with reentry over the Atlantic about 15 min from now

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3lnerlvqbw22j

Bandwagon-3: ADD 425-4 and the Tomorrow-S payload cataloged in 566 x 607 km x 45.4 deg and 572 x 581 km x 45.4 deg orbits, confirming successful launch

Starbase activities (2025-04-21):

• Apr 20 cryo delivery tally.
• Build site: Highbay demolition continues. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• The LTM11200 crane is laid down briefly, then raised back up. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• A test tank for booster version 3 emerges from Megabay 1 and moves towards Starfactory. (NSF, ViX)
• Launch site: The SpaceX LR11000 crane reconfiguration continues. Reeving process is underway. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• 15-minute road delay is posted for Apr 23rd between 01:00 and 02:00 for transport from pad to factory.

KSC activities:

• Scaffolding is erected around the chopsticks at LC-39A. (pewpewturtle69, Killip, starship_34

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, boostback burn, and fairing separation.

Liftoff!

Propellant load is underway. T-20 minute vent has occurred.

“Hi Facebook!”

This is a frontend for… YouTube? TikTok? Peertube? Loops?

not a fan of having it on .world because of it defeating decentralization, but its already kinda established

For completeness’ sake, I’ll also highlight:

• !fox@lemm.ee
• !foxnews@lemm.ee
• !foxes@lemmy.ml

Might want to avoid ML, but the dormant EE communities could be resurrected as a non-World alternative which is better-managed than SDF.

As you mentioned in the OP, Greyscale hasn’t been active for a couple years. Paging admin @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org.

While sdf.org are older than Lemmy and will likely be around for a long time, they are pretty hands-off regarding their Lemmy instance, and it could take a while to transfer mod duties of !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org.

wondering why it says to page relevant users in a top-level comment. Do user mentions just not work in a post so it has to be a comment?

Correct. As far as I am aware, user mentions do not (yet) work from within posts.

Adding a few top-level comments also provides some seeds and structure for discussion, making it more inviting than a completely empty comments section.

“What about second lagomorph?”

Isn’t that painting of a farmer and his daughter, not a farmer and his wife, though?

Username checks out. Account is 8 months old.

c/beetlejuicing

My brain has difficulty accepting that this creature is real and did not fall out of a Dr. Seuss book.

Cursed upvote.

Looks like we’ll get a rare Falcon 9 landing at LZ-2. Usually that pad is used only for simultaneous Falcon Heavy side booster landings, but with Bandwagon-3 launching so soon after CRS SpX-32, I guess LZ-1 will still occupied by B1092 at the time B1090 returns to land.

Norminal launch, booster landing, and Dragon deploy.

Docking scheduled for 2025-04-22 12:20 UTC.

You linked to https://lemmy.zip/c/BoardGameArena, which is usually fine, but sometimes causes issues for users who are not on lemmy.zip.

it’s generally good practice to include the “instance agnostic” link too.