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  1. BJK

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    Falcon Heavy - first launch in 3 years

    Jump to 13:00 for launch (great view after rocket clears fog)
    3 new boosters. Center booster is sacrificed for extended burn. (no landing legs or grid fins)
    At 22:00, watch top right box. You can see other booster's landing burn below. (staggered landing)



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    I'm surprised that they launched in such heavy fog!
     
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    Not ideal, but, launch is computer controlled. >>> West coast Vandenberg AFB launch site is famous for it's thick fog. Such is life on the coast, whether east or west. ;)


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    SpaceX seems far more liberal with the weather than Nasa. They launched a rocket when there was a lightning storm in Orlando and Nasa never did anything like that.
     
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    SpaceX is for more liberal about most everything. That's how they are able to be so much cheaper.
     
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    :cool:

     
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    Liberal is not an adjective used in engineering (something my graduate advisor enlightened me of a long time ago;)). You could say less conservative, but in terms of SPACE-X they are just less encumbered by regulatory oversight, both within and without.
     
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    Space-X believes in test, fail, test some more and fail less, and then eventually reliable ops. NASA is, to understate the case, risk averse, as is USAF.
     
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    Remember reading that Musk said something to the effect that: "You have to blow thing up to make progress"...I remember thinking, during the early failures of trying to land 1st stage boosters on a ship deck, boy is that stupid!
     
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    Falcon 9 booster POV - to space and back (1:40 time-lapse)

    200th successful launch! :eek: :cool: :D


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    Falcon Heavy Launch-to-Landing (4k res) in 8 min on Jan. 15 '23

    Boosters separation at 2:20


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    163rd and 4th booster recovery for SpaceX. Awesome.
     
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    This is kinda cool :cool: ...... really gets going around the '2016' mark :D

    13 Years of SpaceX Florida Launches in Under 1 Minute (2010-2023)



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    Abort at T-00:59 :rolleyes: :( .......... they'll try again tomorrow night at same time.

    Launching 3 rockets (27 Merlin rocket engines) simultaneously. A thousand things can go wrong. ;)

    follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX :)

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    it was a bright one, but it was a bummer that the boosters weren’t coming back to land at the cape
     
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