Qantas starts international wifi

[markis10]

789 ZNB also likely to return from HKG in next few days

ZNB was outside yesterday with a bit of activity around her

 

[moa999]

90% weather chance for Falcon Heavy in 75min.

 

[justinbrett]

90% weather chance for Falcon Heavy in 75min.

Launched successfully.

 

[justinbrett]

Launch video here.

 

[moa999]

Very nice landing of the boosters.

Still a couple of burns and 5hrs until the satellite is deployed, and then some more time to raise to final deployment and deploy the panels (which is where things went wrong for F1)

 

[moa999]

ViaSat has confirmed successful deployment and initial acquisition of signal.

Still a lot of steps to get it into final orbit with full operation expected to be reached by late (northern) summer - so August 2026.

Viasat Confirms Successful Launch and Initial Signal Acquisition of ViaSat-3 F3

www.viasat.com

Deployment video from 5hrs into flight

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049567931973955744

 

[moa999]

VH-ZNB due back overnight, likely taking 787s to 10/14. Will do an update once we get a confirmation on VH-EBQ (hasn't flown since arriving SYD Wed night)

 

[wenglock.mok]

VH-ZNB due back overnight, likely taking 787s to 10/14. Will do an update once we get a confirmation on VH-EBQ (hasn't flown since arriving SYD Wed night)

My friend caught a photo of EBQ at SYD this morning and we can confirm it does have a new wifi hump.