NorKs provide a needed reality check
Ax-2 Dragon capsule recovered routinely off Florida Gulf Coast
Another textbook night launch/landing from Vandenberg
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Arabsat)
Nice routine night launch from the Cape
14th launch for this booster
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Electron NASA P/L from NZ)
Pretty blue sky and sea vid
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Crew Dragon Axiom)
And now, a little Sunday manned spaceflight
Terrific video, go full-screen
Dragon docking at ISS planned for ~9:30am EDT tomorrow, Mon
No decent video of approach and docking, yet
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Double-Header)
Morning launch from Vandenberg
Night launch from the Cape
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink)
Let’s start Sunday off with a textbook night launch from the Cape
This booster’s eleventh landing,
so reckon it knows what it’s doin’
Stuff that’s hard to do (Electron NASA P/L from NZ)
Falcon9 Starlink launch through rare blue skies from Vandenberg SFB
(included it here, because the other video needed updating)
For you launch-video fans,
here’s a pretty one, but without a landing.
You know… old-school
Unique event:
Battery ejection @~T+6:50
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Starlink)
Textbook night launch & landing
Next-week’s SpaceX launches:
Wed 4:04pm EDT, Starlink from Vandenberg SFB
Thu 11:52pm EDT, Starlink from The Cape
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Potential Threefer)
Dramatic view of fairing half re-entry
Fairing reentry on the ViaSat-3 mission was the hottest and fastest we've ever attempted. The fairings re-entered the atmosphere greater than 15x the speed of sound, creating a large trail of plasma in its wake pic.twitter.com/VgdlH6r3yR
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 2, 2023
Nice vid, especially of a fairing half flashing past @36sec
Stage separation at sunset, followed by second stage engine startup, and payload fairing deploy pic.twitter.com/QOecwdHx4s
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 2, 2023
Three launches
Falcon Heavy (Viasat) Great night-launch video but no booster landings
Falcon9 (Starlink) Nice vid climbing out of the Vandenberg ground fog
Falcon9 (O3b Mpower) Textbook
Nature reminds everybody who’s boss
Last night’s storm in Florida produced hail, tornadoes, and lightning. Following this strike on the tower at 39A, teams performed additional checkouts of Falcon Heavy, the payloads, and ground support equipment pic.twitter.com/GZwCARaZTx
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 28, 2023
Nifty view of the Starship ascent/destruct from an airliner:
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Starship First Test Flight)
Launch to Self-Destruct Command
• Short overview
• Overview
• Analysis 1
• Analysis 2
• Review with flight test history
• Launch pad debris