All things Falcon 9 Here's a 15 story building (Falcon 9 booster) falling down out of the sky at supersonic speed (768 mph/1,236 kmh + sonic BOOM) Watch first 45 sec part, then JUMP to 1:55 for close up tracking new .
Landing a 150 ft tall rocket booster is hard. it sometimes results in a RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly old .
I was at the Apollo/Saturn V Center (Kennedy Space Center) during the first Falcon Heavy launch. The most striking thing about the whole event was the twin sonic booms and seeing the two giant boosters falling out of the sky and doing a synchronized landing. Wow. That was amazing. The second striking thing about the launch was the arc welder brightness of the exhaust plume from the boosters. I've seen plenty of launches before but never a kerosine/ox rocket of that size. Shuttle engines were blue and barely visible. Solid rockets are more red and smoke than anything else.
Very probable that Musk's Falcon engines are burning more efficiently than the F-1's during the Apollo era.
Is SpaceX's Raptor engine the king of rocket engines? Long vid, lots of info - everything you ever wanted to know about ....... Time stamps under description JUMP to 30:40 for engine comparisons (incl. F1) .
Yes. The flame was very bright and the sound vibrated your entire body, even if you were miles away. I watched Apollo 17 from my home in Orlando. When the engines fired at T -9, the entire sky lit up bright, just like a sunrise. The sun rose swiftly, the Earth trailed its shadows swiftly falling back and down. Its flame trail that night was two miles long.
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record 11th flight carrying 52 Starlink satellites https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-record-falcon-9-11th-flight amazing, and they will keep going - till failure (or till refurb cost makes no sense) .
100 booster landings! 6 years to the day! It has become so routine, few even notice. Look forward to when Starship reaches the same milestone. Image Unavailable, Please Login .
Eventually, they will recover the upper stage, too, after a once around. Prices should drop quite a bit then.
Elon Musk: Four Falcon Heavy flights later this year by an incredible team at SpaceX Hard to believe, it's already June. Possible? sure. Probable? We'll see. Image Unavailable, Please Login .
2 of 4? scheduled Falcon Heavy missions this year https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ Image Unavailable, Please Login
aaand 3 more would be FIVE https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login .
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket’s NASA Asteroid Psyche launch delayed to 2023 https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-nasa-psyche-launch-delay-2023/ .
" Deployment of 51 Starlink satellites confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 40th mission so far this year! " crazy. they launch (and land) so often now, nobody pays attention. completely routine. Image Unavailable, Please Login .
After software delays, NASA says Psyche asteroid mission won’t launch (Falcon Heavy) this year https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/06/27/after-software-delays-nasa-gives-up-on-launching-psyche-asteroid-mission-this-year/ Image Unavailable, Please Login .
ho-hum, another Space-X crewed launch to the ISS. This time with a Russian on board. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/05/spacex-crew-5-nasa-launch-live-stream.html
".... the company’s eighth human spaceflight in just over two years." MUCH more at stake with these missions. Nothing routine or 'ho-hum' about these. (I do get that they seem ho-hum ) 1,000 things that could go wrong. and people will raise holy hell if 1 goes wrong. .
Absolutely nothing ho-hum about it, although they seem to have made things such that their launch rate is much greater than at anytime, even exceeding un-manned rates. However to the news cycle it is ho-hum, until something goes awry.
USSF-44 will land the two outboard boosters back on land and that’s always cool to see. We hear them in Orlando usually.
