Late-Onset Megalomania
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• Cultural ref (Siegfried, Get Smart)
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 rideshares)
This Stg-1’s fifteenth launch
Routine, cool video
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Gander Sauce
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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 ISI EROS C-3, Vandenberg)
61st Falcon9 of 2022
Israeli hi-res reccy-sat mission from the same space launch complex (SLC-4)
that NRO recce programs GAMBIT & HEXAGON used back in the day*
Nice videos
@T+2m40s (Stg1 boost-back) the Stg1 and Stg2 engines are pointed at each other
so the plume interaction is really interesting
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* Yeah, I worked 21 launches from there in the ’70s
If you’ve ever wondered why I still use the same title for routine successes…
Ewwww
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