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Sunset Launch by J L Spaulding Via Flickr: SpaceX on 2024-01-23, @ 1635 PST a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from SLC-4, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Ok it was 50 minutes before sunset but it didn't matter the marine layer was present.

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It Only Takes One

Jason has never felt more useless in his life. There's a gun to your head, and all he can do is watch. ~1.2k words

You're kneeling in front of him. Any other time, he would be fighting the heat that threatens to rise to his face. Any other time, he would be reaching out to cup the back of your head, eager to guide you closer. But it's not any other time. There's a gun pressed to where Jason's fingers should be on your scalp, and Jason feels cold.

The armor of his Red Hood gear is too tight. He can't tell what your expression is under your domino mask. He wonders if you're scared. It would be worse if you weren't, if you trust him enough to save you.

He doesn't hear most of Falcone's speech, he's too busy desperately thinking of a way to save you. He can't seem to come up with one. The cold metal of the gun is against your head and he's halfway across the room from you. He doesn't know how to save you.

Falcone shoves the barrel of the gun against your head. It takes every inch of Jason's self-control not to lurch forward. "You really thought there wouldn't be consequences for burning down my warehouses, did you," Falcone asks, smug and confident.

"I'll admit the two of you have been a real problem for me," he continues, nudging your leg with his foot in feigned disgust. He looks up from you to meet Red Hood's gaze, "But it only takes one good bullet to deal with issues like this."

Jason does surge forward at that, and the henchmen at either side of him force him back down to his knees.

Falcone just laughs. "Ah, ah, hot shot," he knocks back the safety and Jason's ears start to ring, "wouldn't want your partner to spill their brains everywhere. Not when we haven't had any real fun."

You still look so calm. Even as he thrashes and writhes against the men holding him down, you're kneeling like there's not a thing wrong. Like your life doesn't hang in the balance, like just one twitch of Falcones finger wouldn't take away the person Jason needs most.

All his training, all his skills and reflexes, all has come down to nothing. Because he can't save you. He can't stop the cruel smiles that form on the thugs around you. He can't find a way to cross the room and get to you before the trigger gets pulled.

"Don't shoot," he snaps out, all the panic and fear he's feeling filtered out through the helmet in a false bravado, "Aren't they more useful alive?"

Falcone scoffs and kicks you again, "Neither of you are useful."

"I could be," Jason promises. He could be. He could be anything to keep you safe, "I used to run more territory in Gotham than you've ever seen. I have an in with The Bat. I'm the best at what I do, and you know it."

Interest speaks in Falcones' eyes. Good. He should be focused on Red Hood. He should be lowering that gun a fraction of an inch. He should consider everything Jason would do for you. The lines he would cross. The people he'd hurt. He'd change the world to get you home safe.

Falcone lowers the gun completely. Jason wants to be relieved, but you still have other guns trained on you. You're still in danger.

Falcone takes a step closer to him, "Alright, Hood, I'm in a good mood tonight. So, let's make a deal. You tell me who Batman is, maybe do me a few favors, and you and your partner are free to go."

"They leave first, and then we talk," Jason counters. As if he'd risk you getting shot.

Faclone tuts and points his gun back towards you, "That's not how this works, son."

Red Hood stiffens. He doesn't feel like a hero right now, he rarely ever does. But in this moment, he's weak. Pathetic. He has one chance to keep you safe, and he's going to take it. Jason opens his mouth to speak.

Glass shatters and smoke fills the room. Instinct kicks in and Jason's thrown off the men holding him down before Falcone even has a chance to bark out orders. Nothing else matters but getting his hands on you.

There's yelling. None he recognizes. He breaks more bones than he has in weeks. Blood splatters onto his armor.

When the smoke finally starts to clear, Jason scans the room desperately. Every single goon is knocked unconscious on the floor. Falcone's in handcuffs, limp on the floor.

He's lucky that Red Robin and Spoiler got to him first. Jason is more than inclined to remind him why Red Hood was the most powerful crime lord Gotham's ever known.

"Hey-" your voice cuts into his darker thoughts. Jason doesn't hesitate to move towards you and grab your waist with both hands, tugging you against him.

He scans your face, "Are you hurt?" He's frantic, his hands hold you just a little too tight, he's crowding your space. Jason's aware of all of this, but he only pulls you closer.

"I'm okay. I'm not hurt. Are you?" You say, pressing your hands to the leather of his jacket.

His shoulders slump and he drops his head to rest his face plate against your forehead, "I'm– fine." He takes a moment, a selfish minute to focus on your breathing.

He pulls back to nod towards Spoiler and Red Robin, "We're leaving." Jason doesn't bother to check if they acknowledge him, only pulls you along to the balcony.

He's more shaken than he wants to admit. He needs to get both of you out of here, somewhere safe. You follow him willingly, don't say a word until he's led you all the way home to your apartment.

You don't try to talk him out of anything, not when he pulls you onto his lap and holds you close. You let him toss his helmet to the ground and hide his face in your shoulder.

Jason's not sure how long it stays like that. Your armor digs into his skin. He's sure his own suit is doing the same. You play with the ends of his hair. He tries to keep his heartbeat steady.

Jason nearly convinces himself that both of you are safe. That it's going to be okay. He almost believes it until you speak up.

"Were you going to tell him?" You ask quietly, so softly he might have missed it if his every sense wasn't trained on you.

"Tell him?" He mumbles in your neck. Jason knows exactly what you're talking about. But he's stalling. There's no way to really answer.

You don't respond. He doesn't answer.

Of course, he was going to tell him. Of course, he was going to put everyone they've ever cared about or loved in danger.

You know that. You have to know that if you don't ask again. There's not a thing he wouldn't give to keep you alive, to keep you happy and healthy and safe.

He'd trade any secret, commit any atrocity, betray everyone who ever trusted him, all for you. But how can he put that into words? He can't. Doesn't know how. And you don't deserve the burden of that. He can't lay something so heavy at your feet.

He holds you tighter instead. The silence is answer enough.

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Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson THE FACLON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021) - 1.04 • "The Whole World Is Watching"

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THE FACLON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021) - 1.04 • "The Whole World Is Watching"

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Prompt/idea for a fic

Peter, with his press photographer badge.

Maybe he accidentally shows it while trying to get into a club when trying to get his ID out. Bouncer sees it and lets him in no worries. Peter would have thought it was weird.

And then he tries it again on purpose. And once again, he gets let in, even though it's a different club. It gets to be a habit. He starts writing reviews in a tiny little column about the latest clubs for the paper. Creates a website to track his review and how he rates. Vlogs. Streams. Goes live at events.

He gets popular fast, so much so clubs are now PAYING him to show up and give an honest review. Doesn't matter what type of club, either. Some people even pay Peter to let them join him on his adventures in the clubs.

He wasn't expecting the Winter Soldier and the Faclon, aka new Captain America, to show up at his studio apartment. They needed an in for an exclusive club, and he was their ticket it.

And Peter was worried he was found out as Spiderman again....

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The top gun school wanting a mascot and Bradley who is now an instructor is in charge of getting one, he has forms filled out to get a faclon and on the day the Faclon is supposed to come, a cow is delivered instead.

Bradley isn’t sure how the hell that even got mixed up, but when he tries to send the cow back, Jake convinces him to let them keeping it by giving the biggest puppy dogs eyes ever, while hugging the cow.

“You can’t kick margarine out.” Jake says

“Margarine?”

A few days later the dagger squad are taking a group pic with Margarine and it’s hung on the school walls.

[bouncinghedgehog]

Aplomado Falcon

Falco femoralis, a male Southern Amplomado Faclon.

Photo by Jon Nelson

[zombiegangster]

The Blue Faclon & Dyno-Mutt

[kaylahlarin]

Bucky and I will bully the shit out of John's bitch ass cuz idk who tf he think he is bitch watch your back

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[flf031k]

Sunset Launch by J L Spaulding Via Flickr: SpaceX on 2024-01-23, @ 1635 PST a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from SLC-4, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Ok it was 50 minutes before sunset but it didn't matter the marine layer was present.

[vincentreproches]

“Se va !” le dégagisme en deux mots... venant d’un ancien caviste s’est d’autant plus savoureux.

[theowlsarequeer]

O.O

bucky: i was today years old when i found out “why does the chicken cross the road” is a suicide joke.

thor:

bruce:

sam:

steve: (softly) no.

[alicejohnn9087]

Falcon 9 Rocket: SpaceX Replacing the Engines Before Mission

Falcon 9 is a reusable two-stage-to-orbit medium-lift launch rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX. It uses SpaceX Merlin engines, burning cryogenic liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene as its propellants. On Wednesday, SpaceX and NASA confirmed that they would launch the Crew-1 mission on 14th November, and it will carry four astronauts to the International Space Station. But the plan had to be delayed as SpaceX engineers found an unrecognizable substance in the engines.

The launch was initially scheduled to happen on Halloween, but NASA delayed the launch after they found the engine issue on 2nd October during a launch attempt of the rocket. The Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the latest GPS satellite for the Space Force, but it failed to take off as the engine shut down two seconds ago. Despite the failure in the attempt, the vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, Hans Koenigsmann, said that “it was a good abort and the rocket did exactly what we programmed it to do.”

Addressing the Issue

On Wednesday, SpaceX revealed that two of the nine main Merlin engines stopped abruptly just two seconds before the launch. The people involved in the project are still unsure about the reason behind engine failure, but they assume that they did a Hard Start to the engine. In easy terms, the liquids and propellants were probably combined in the wrong order. This procedure is called Hard Start, which caused the hardware of the rocket to get damaged. In the teleconference, Hans also revealed that “It’s not necessarily bad, but in most cases, you know, it rattles the engine, and it may cause, you know, a little bit of damage on the engine. In extreme cases, it may cause more damage to the engine.” His claims point out that this was not really a loss but only a setback on which the team is currently working.

Checking the Damage and Real Issue

After this failed attempt, SpaceX technicians were determined to find the issue. They started by removing two engines and shipped new ones from their test site in Florida. The technicians tried to replicate the issue and found a reddish lacquer substance clogging the gas generator’s relief valve. Fortunately, the team has successfully removed the problem causing lacquer from the vent hole, resulting in the engines’ work as good as new.

The reddish lacquer they found on the engine is usually used to treat the leftover surfaces of the engine. Koenigsmann believes that the lacquer entered the engine due to SpaceX’s vendors who work on it. But the real reason has not been found yet.

Currently, SpaceX is working with its vendors and guiding them on new measures. The company is also checking the rocket’s hardware to ensure that everything is fine inside out. The company opened all of the engines and found the lacquer inside each of them. But the lacquer was mostly on the latest engines built by the company. That’s why they are now swapping the engines.

At the current stage, SpaceX does not plan to fly Crew-1 until the launch of Sentinel-6, a joint European and American satellite. It will monitor all the oceans worldwide, and it is scheduled to fly from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10th November. The company has swapped the affected engine on the Falcon 9 rocket. Now, NASA wants to check and test the rocket again before setting its astronauts on the flight.

Meanwhile, the astronauts assigned to be the part of Crew-1 have started their quarantine process and are on rest before they can go back to the station for a strict quarantine two weeks before flying.

Source : https://themartwiki.com/blog/falcon-9-rocket-spacex-replacing-the-engines-before-mission/

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the falcon and the winter soldier - bucky barnes

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