Falcon 9 STRANDED! SpaceX Silently Losed Rocket in Orbit...FAA?

"Falcon 9 STRANDED! SpaceX Silently Losed Rocket in Orbit...FAA?
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Intro: 0:00
Falcon 9 Upper Stage Stuck in Orbit: 0:26
This happened before:3:29
Starship: 7:23
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Falcon 9 STRANDED! SpaceX Silently Losed Rocket in Orbit...FAA?
In the vastness of space, a Falcon 9 upper stage is drifting.
It was supposed to fall back to Earth more than a week ago, but something went wrong.
This is … definitely strange.
How can a system with over 300 successes suddenly malfunction?
Does it have anything to do with the recent Starship explosion? In today episode, let's find out about this.
According to orbital tracking data, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 spacecraft has become lost in orbit. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that this was from the Falcon 9 spacecraft that launched on the 1st of this month. At 3:02 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 successfully launched 22 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff as planned, touching down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship ""Of Course I Still Love You.”.
Falcon 9 STRANDED! SpaceX Silently Losed Rocket in Orbit...FAA?
It marked the 17th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SDA-0A, SARah-2, Transporter-11, and now 14 Starlink missions. The Falcon 9's upper stage, on the other hand, carried the 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit and successfully deployed them at their designated locations. It was then supposed to de-orbit burn to fall back into the Pacific Ocean. The problem is, it didn't.
Instead, it seems to remain in orbit. The good news is that since the mission placed it in a relatively low orbit close to Earth, it won’t be there for long and will soon re-enter the atmosphere. The bad news is that it’s been over a week since launch, meaning its fuel or batteries are likely depleted. As a result, when it does fall, we won’t have any way to control it, and worse, we won’t even know where it will land.
Falcon 9 STRANDED! SpaceX Silently Losed Rocket in Orbit...FAA?
To predict where the Falcon 9 upper stage will fall, we need to know its orbital inclination. In spaceflight, ""inclination"" refers to the angle between a spacecraft's orbital plane and the equatorial plane of the planet it orbits. It essentially describes how tilted the orbit is relative to the equator, measured in degrees. A 0-degree inclination means the orbit directly aligns with the equator, while a 90-degree inclination indicates a polar orbit passing over the poles. The Falcon 9's inclination is about 53.2 degrees so it could land anywhere between 53 degrees north and 53 degrees south of the Earth, which is basically, almost anywhere on Earth. I know, not so helpful.
So, after more than 300 successful Falcon 9 launches, why did such an incident suddenly happen? SpaceX has not yet said anything about why the upper stage did not perform as planned or where the problem occurred.
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