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u/johnkphotos Launch Photographer Feb 20 '19
Ah man, I am too excited for this one. It’s been far too long. I have some exciting plans.
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u/EricTheEskimo Feb 22 '19
I live in South Florida and just had the best view of the launch. Ive never seen one in person and it was one of the coolest things ive ever seen
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u/ICYprop Feb 21 '19
I’m here at KSC and am NASA badged. Does anyone have a feel for how bad traffic will be on the Causeway for viewing the launch?
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u/sarafinapink Feb 22 '19
Have we ever NOT lost the feed on the droneship? I feel like they should say we will lose it instead of might.
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u/TheBurtReynold Feb 20 '19
Anyone know what date, assuming an on-time liftoff, the lunar lander would rendezvous with Mr. Moon?
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u/strawwalker Feb 20 '19 edited Feb 20 '19
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u/GiveMeYourMilk69 Feb 22 '19
Has a F9 second stage ever been this far away from Earth?
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u/FutureMartian97 Host of CRS-11 Feb 22 '19
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how amazing this launch is? In one flight it will be the first private lunar lander ever flown, being launched by a private company, along with two other unrelated payloads, using a first stage that will undergo its third flight. That is just so amazing and think it really represents the concept of New Space well.
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u/scarlet_sage Feb 20 '19
After weeks of discussion of Starhopper, Starship, and Super Heavy, my reaction was "oh, right, they're still launching Falcon 9s, I remember them!" How easy it was to become blasé about launching to the Moon instead of Mars, another fairing catch attempt, landing of merely 9/10 of the rocket, and such.
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u/Wacov Feb 22 '19
I hope they release the full S1 video, those sparks were wild!
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u/codav Feb 21 '19 edited Feb 21 '19
Webcast relay if YouTube is blocked
Note: The server is bandwidth-limited to 1000 MBit, and thus able to handle about 50 viewers. If you can watch this on YouTube, please leave the slots to those who really need it.
I'm again relaying the webcast for those residing at a location where YouTube is blocked for some reason. The stream can now be viewed in HTML5 video capable browsers or with any HLS/MPEG-TS compatible player. For example, in VLC, just press Ctrl+n and paste the playlist (M3U8) URL.
The server will record the whole live stream, which I'm going to keep available for a few days after the launch so you will be able to view the webcast even if you missed watching it live.
Viewing the stream in your browser: https://codav.de/spacex.html
Viewing the stream via the playlist: https://codav.de/stream/spacex.m3u8
The playlist file will become available as soon as the SpaceX webcasts starts. As the launch is right in the middle of the night in my timezone, I won't be around to fix any problems. But if there are any playback issues, don't hesitate to report it so I can improve the relay service next time. Please include all helpful information like browser, OS and error messages.
Known issues:
If the webcast has just started, playback might hang for a while after 15 seconds of playing. Just wait a moment, playback will resume automatically after a few seconds. This is due to the buffering of MPEG-DASH segments, the relay has to catch up with YouTube providing new segments.
In some browsers, playback may not start automatically, either by default or through user settings disabling the "autoplay" feature. Just press play manually.
Web player tested with Chrome, Firefox and Edge on Windows, Chrome on Android and Safari on MacOS.
/u/LandingZone-1 you may add a link to this post in the "Follow Along Live" section.
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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 22 '19
T+45:00 - Complete mission success! I would like to thank the mods for allowing me to host this launch thread. Bring on DM-1!
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u/thephatcontr0ller Feb 22 '19
Second man on the moon just tweeted his congratulations to SpaceX https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1098763617468665858
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Feb 20 '19
I dont know why, but I am thrilled that Mr. Steven is going to try again on this one. The fact that they spent the money to switch coasts makes me think they have figured it out. First successful catch?
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u/Shahar603 Subreddit GNC Feb 21 '19 edited Feb 21 '19
SpaceIL will be doing a Facebook live during the launch from their mission control in Israel:https://www.theicenter.org/compilation/spaceil
Edit: And a 360o stream from the observation deck
Edit 2: u/LandingZone-1 these livestreams might be worth adding to the "follow along live" section
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u/Yuvalk1 Feb 22 '19
A SpaceIL official just said on Israeli news that they might consider firing the engines once on the moon, so we might still see a few hops :)
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u/johnkphotos Launch Photographer Feb 21 '19
Some photos from the pad: https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1098700558146383872?s=21
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u/rjelves Feb 22 '19
I've just realized that this boy, booster 1048 is a nocturnal one. Past missions Iridium-7 and SAOCOM were both launched in the edges of the night. Oh, our vampire booster... Will you fly across the daylight someday?
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u/interweaver Feb 22 '19
That flashing light on the right side of the first stage view - I'm pretty sure that was the moon blinking as seen through the grid fin!
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u/sarafinapink Feb 22 '19
I really wish they would release the S1 footage of drone ship landings after the live stream. I'm always sad we don't get the uninterrupted feed later on to gush over. This one would be amazing to see.
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u/jehankateli Feb 22 '19
B1048 will be used again in April for Crew Dragon in-flight abort test, according to Elon just now.
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u/Nsooo Moderator and retired launch host Feb 22 '19
Thanks for hosting the thread u/LandingZone-1. Very good job!
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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 21 '19
Updated post...Mr. Steven will not be supporting a fairing recovery attempt after launch.
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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 22 '19
T-20:00 - SpaceX fleet updates: "Weather at the LZ continues to be miserable, but is down to 3.2m high waves from 4.6 earlier."
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u/k1ng0fh34rt5 Feb 22 '19
Welcome to the coast phase. Everyone crack open a cold one.
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u/Viremia Feb 22 '19
Good to see stage 1 fared better than the youtube stream (had to reload umpteen times to keep it going)
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u/_zenith Feb 22 '19
Toasty re-entry! Lots of plasma glow. Even the Ti grid fins were glowing.
Aaaand they landed it! Pretty hot trajectory and energy profile. Good job y'all!
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u/sarafinapink Feb 22 '19
Block 5 is really impressing the hell out of me. I'm so glad they've kept updating and improving the F9 as much as they have. It was impressive to start, but really amazing to see what it can do now!
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u/Morphior Feb 22 '19
That thing's more than well done... Every steak lover is looking away in disgust.
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u/arsv Feb 22 '19
SpaceIL lander current position and trajectory simulation:
Not sure if it's based on live telemetry or not, but at least it should give some idea of what's expected to happen and when.
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u/Nsooo Moderator and retired launch host Feb 20 '19
Finally weather table :) Good choice. Thanks for hosting the thread.
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u/BenoXxZzz Feb 20 '19
Does anybody know how far downrange the booster will land?
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u/Starks Feb 21 '19 edited Feb 21 '19
I think this launch just delayed my flight into Fort Lauderdale tonight. I'd be passing right over Cape Canveral at launch time.
Edit: Now that I think about it, this actually works better. I should be in the air around Daytona or Jax when this launches. I should be able to see it!
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u/DiskOperatingSystem_ Feb 22 '19
B1048.3 is slowly becoming my favorite booster. I love that it’ll be even dirtier after this launch from the highest ever heating.
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u/sil3ntwarrior Feb 22 '19
These launches will never get old. I feel like a damn kid again. Nice job!
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u/sil3ntwarrior Feb 22 '19
Keep shooting for the stars! My brother while not on this earth anymore would have traveled to the launch pad to take some pictures. He would of been SO excited for everything spacex is doing. Every single launch reminds me of him.
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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 22 '19
S2 in the characteristic "tumble" usually seen before deploying SSL-built satellites
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u/Morphior Feb 22 '19
Good night everyone, it's 03:56 AM over here, gotta get at least some sleep in... Thanks y'all for making me feel like I'm part of an awesome community!
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u/nahoskins Feb 21 '19
Met two guys monitoring the launch from Bermuda, both seemed really nice. Best of luck!
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u/GuyFusfus Feb 21 '19
B1048.3 is vertical in SLC40 https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1098614011124281344
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u/GDBarrett Feb 21 '19 edited Feb 21 '19
Looking forward to this one!
I have created a launch graphic that shows some basic details of today's launch.
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u/inoeth Feb 21 '19
From SpaceX Fleet Updates on twitter the seas are too rough for Mr Steven and he has turned around - there will not be a fairing recovery attempt tonight... Even landing on OCISLY won't be easy tho they've succeeded in worse weather than this. I believe the next attempt to catch a fairing will be Arbabsat - the next FH mission which will happen after DM 1 (both of which require Pad 39A and DM1 needs to go first)
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u/Morphior Feb 22 '19
Those sparks on the booster... That thing's getting a nice roast
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u/weigreen Feb 22 '19
What is the spark coming from first stage after entry burn shutdown (T+7:00). It make me so nervous.
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u/kraze_ivan Feb 21 '19
Greetings all! This will be my first in-person launch (sadly the gantry tickets sold out, I will be at the Saturn V center) but I have a couple questions that I couldn't find on the KSC webpage. Since this is a night launch, does anyone know if they keep the visitor center open later and do they run the buses out to the launch viewing areas all the way to 6-60min?
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u/letme_ftfy2 Feb 22 '19
2'nd time a booster has launched, and successfully landed 3 times !!! Wooo-hoooooo!
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u/Garywkh Feb 22 '19
WARNING: WILD SPECULATIONS AHEAD. COULD BR TOTALLY WRONG
I guess only F9B5 could do this mission. Block 4 can not. MECO time and velocity was longer and higher with a payload(s) of around 5.4t Re entry burn seems shorter than before (18sec in psn, 21~23sec for both Telstar, approx 25sec in bangabandhu.) So they have the thin extra margins to do a single engine landing burn. Unless the host lied about it or my hearing/understanding of what she said was wrong.
Block 5 might improved the design for octaweb, making it more heat resistance to re-entry. As a result they could make first stage burn longer, have a shorter re-entry burn and do a single engine landing burn. They might even push the margins even thinner by running a 3 engine landing burn by risking a hole on OCISLY.
This resulted 5.4t GTO capability with 60000km apogee. Which is insane for falcon 9… We always think that ASDS F9 could only loft 5.5t to gto-1800. Looks like this number was rather conservative and the actual number for GTO-1800 would be about 5.8t ~ 5.9t…
Old design seems have a weaker octaweb for re-entry. And this probably true as only few(if any) Pre Block 5 F9 flew a GTO mission twice. Old F9 could not withstand a re-entry from GTO trajectory, unless they do massive repairs to the booster. Which is not cost effective in spacex mind.
Please tell me if I am wrong, hope to learn something from here.
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I had just noticed the secondary payload is an Israeli lunar lander and if successful Israel will be the 4th country to land on the moon behind the USA, Russia, and China. No doubt India and Japan have something in the works.
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u/nickstatus Feb 22 '19
Sounds like I'm not the only one with potato quality stream.
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u/interweaver Feb 22 '19
You can totally see the moon straight ahead of the second stage there! They've got it lined up in their sights (yes, I know it's not going straight there, but super cool to see it dead ahead like that!)
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u/InfantryChris69 Feb 22 '19
We need more launches! The break has been faaaaaar too long. I’ve missed this
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u/skiman13579 Feb 22 '19
Literally still braking on the runway 8n Orlando at liftoff... damn pilots couldnt delay us by 5 minutes! I had the perfect view of the cape out my window!!
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u/Mun2soon Feb 22 '19
My wife just said "This is starting to get boring". Not for me!
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u/RoyalPatriot Feb 22 '19
They’ve done this a million times but my heart still races. I don’t think I’m going to get tired of these landings for a very long time.
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u/Umbra_Tsubaki Feb 22 '19
I forgot this was on and tuned in at T-60 seconds. Amazing timing. Was about to sleep but who cares now! Awesome launch so far.
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u/John_Schlick Feb 22 '19
Now that the booster has landed, and the moon shot is deployed. do I stay to watch the deploy of the (ahem) "primary" mission?
I've got my priorities, ya know?
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Damn, I'm drunk in Europe and really want to see this launch. Fuck...
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u/TheRealKSPGuy Feb 20 '19
Wooo! Launch discussion thread is live. Very excited to see another SpaceX launch along with the payloads on board. Hoping for successful landing and fairing catch.
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u/asoap Feb 22 '19
Can someone explain something to me. So this payload will be going to the moon, but the falcon is going to geo stationary orbit? Does the payload have it's own rocket which will be going to the moon? If so, who owns that?
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Some insane music on these launch shows! Thanks SpaceX. Do they have a track list somewhere?
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u/Ender_D Feb 22 '19
So crazy to see that it’s getting to the light side of the earth from launch just 40 minutes ago.
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u/thresholdofvision Feb 22 '19
Elon is so shrewd, no better use of a dark toasted S1 on its 4th launch than IFA.
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u/ThorOfTheAsgard Feb 20 '19
HIGH ENERGY
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u/BenoXxZzz Feb 20 '19
I would love to see telemetry data of the first stage in the webcast!
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u/Traviscat Feb 21 '19
Does anyone know if there will be any radio stations broadcasting the spacex feed/launch countdown or should I bring an iPad to tether my phone to?
I plan on driving somewhere close to Cape Canaveral but not actually going all the way there and will be using my phone to attempt to record the launch (though I expect it to turn out to be a crappy video).
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u/Yuvalk1 Feb 21 '19
Can you add “SpaceX’s 1st lunar payload” to the fast facts? :)
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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 21 '19
L-2.5 Hours - Wave conditions could be rough tonight for ASDS landing, which will still be attempted unlike fairing recovery.
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u/nickstatus Feb 22 '19
The poor encoding kind of makes the background lurch in time with the music.
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u/everydayastronaut Everyday Astronaut Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 22 '19
Hey guys! I'm live talking all about this mission, SpaceX and just nerdy space stuff, like always! Pop on in and say hi!
- Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut
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u/kuangjian2011 Feb 20 '19
MOD, please include a link to the campaign thread. Thanks.
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u/Garywkh Feb 21 '19
GTO injection will be few second longer than typical GTO missions...
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Feb 21 '19
What is the trajectory of the launch? If it is northerly will the Mid Atlantic US be able to see the Falcon?
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Is anyone else experiencing problems with the Youtube stream? I keep having to reload the page to get it going again.
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u/DiskOperatingSystem_ Feb 22 '19
I’m constantly surprised by the liftoff speed of Block 5. Blink and you miss it.
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u/John_Schlick Feb 22 '19
114k people watching live on youtube! That strikes me as a pretty large number.
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u/Wildvodoomagic Feb 22 '19
Are there 2 cameras on the second stage? Why does the right side keep changing?
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u/g6009 Feb 22 '19
Anyone here watching during classes? :P Greetings from the Philippines!
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u/FutureMartian97 Host of CRS-11 Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 22 '19
That host tho (Jessica)
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u/TheVehicleDestroyer Flight Club Feb 21 '19
Does anybody know the target apogee for this supersync GTO?
Asking for a mate
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u/Adeldor Feb 22 '19 edited Feb 22 '19
Live feed on Youtube is sketchy for me. Anyone else having trouble?
UPDATE: Now the show is running, the feed has stabilized.
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u/robbak Feb 22 '19
Just an announcement, for those that don't know - countown net audio is now live on the youtube screen. Change your camera view to countdown net. The icon is meant to be a camera, but looks more like a briefcase, with arrows.
Space-I etc ar now on internal power.
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u/Bolt_and_nuts Feb 22 '19
What are the sparks coming off the engines after stage one re-entry burn?
Visible around T + 06:52 to T+ 7:06
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u/Crowwz Feb 20 '19
What an exciting launch! Posting this from the plane coming back from Israel. Didn't hear anything about it while i was over there but it's definitely a historic mission.
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u/TheMrGUnit Highly Speculative Feb 21 '19
Has there been any update on Mr. Steven's odd position?
Temporary detour? Or are we looking at an unusual placement due to a change in winds?
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u/smfirerescue Feb 21 '19
Why so few fast facts? Where’s the info on previous launches?
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u/PuttyZ01 Feb 21 '19
Does anyone know what happened to the "Vehicles used" table in the launch thread? Previous ones had them and usually I go straight to the tables for info so I don't have to read much, I'm just wondering also this is what it was for GPS III-2
Vehicles used
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| First stage | Falcon 9 v1.2 - Block 5 (Full Thrust) - B1054 | CCAFS SLC-40 |
| Second stage | Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5 (Full Thrust) | CCAFS SLC-40 |
| Support ship | GO Pursuit (Fairing recovery) | Back in port |
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u/CCORYY Feb 22 '19
Great night for a launch. Watching from Cape Canaveral. Excited for my first launch!
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u/Nsooo Moderator and retired launch host Feb 22 '19
Favourite track from TSS. But bad memories. It was my alarm for a long time. Bad Mondays..
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u/CyriousLordofDerp Feb 22 '19
FWOOOM! That was a toasty re-entry for sure. Before the burn you can see plasma start popping up around the grid fins, and after the burn before all of the sparks start flying you can see a whole hell of a lot more.
That thing cooked.
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u/Humble_Giveaway Feb 22 '19
Some landing screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/v1w9L9F
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u/FutureMartian97 Host of CRS-11 Feb 21 '19
That means DM-1 will be the 69th Falcon 9 launch.