A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 131 different payloads lifted off Tuesday at 1909 UTC from Vandenberg Space Force Base, on the company's Transporter-12 rideshare mission. The rocket's reusable first stage booster landed back at Vandenberg's Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4), about 7.5 minutes after liftoff. This was SpaceX's 397th landing of an orbital class rocket, and second for this particular booster(B1088-2).
The Falcon 9 upper stage continued spaceward, with payload deployment sequence in orbit starting around 55 minutes after liftoff. The payloads will be deployed into low Earth orbit(LEO) over a roughly 90-minute stretch.
Thirty-seven of the 131 payloads going up today belong to San Francisco company Planet, which operates three constellations of Earth-observing satellites. Thirty-six of the 37 Planet craft are "SuperDove" cubesats, shoebox-sized craft that collect images with a resolution of about 10 feet (3 meters) per pixel. The other one is Pelican-2, whose resolution is about 7.5 times sharper than that.
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UFC HALL OF FAMER KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV REMOVED FROM FLIGHT OVER EXIT ROW SEATING DISPUTE
Retired UFC fighter and Hall of Famer, Khabib Nurmagomedov was removed from an Alaska Airlines flight over the weekend after a dispute with a flight attendant over his seating in the emergency exit row.
Nurmagomedov was traveling to Los Angeles ahead of the UFC 311 event on January 18.
The incident occurred when the flight attendant questioned whether Nurmagomedov was prepared and able to assist other passengers in the event of an emergency, as required for those seated in exit rows.
A viral video shows a flight attendant ask Nurmagomedov if he could assist passengers in an emergency. The UFC fighter apparently didn't initially understand the flight attendant's question due to language differences.
Things escalated when the flight attendant gave Nurmagomedov an ultimatum: take a different seat or get off the plane, after which a supervisor was called in and Nurmagomedov was escorted off the plane. A Russian passenger unsuccessfully tried to defend Numagomedov and resolve the issue.
In the viral video, Nurmagomedov is seen saying it was not fair, and that he had complied with the flight crew during the check-in process.
Some social media users wrongly criticized the incident as a case of racial profiling. But it appears to be a language barrier issue.
Nurmagomedov was on his way to UFC 311 to support his colleagues, including Islam Makhachev and Umar Nurmagomedov, and his presence in Los Angeles is still anticipated despite the in-flight incident.
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