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Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 iSpace HAKUTO-R Moon Lander)

December 11, 2022

Night launch
Good vid, especially the separation events

(payload deployment ~T+47m)

4 THOUGHTS ON “Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 iSpace HAKUTO-R Moon Lander)”

  • lawebber says:
    December 11, 2022 at 8:36 am

    OK, Doug, yet another textbook launch.
    Any idea what that point of light tracking left to right (and looking like it’s accelerating) around the T+ 8:30 mark is?

  • DougM says:
    December 11, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    ^ Nope. No idea. If it were aft, I’d say ice; but this was probably another kind of debris. Looks like it was spinning about its long axis, not smoothly cylindrical, and moving closer not accelerating. Could be almost anything. My guess: QA inspector dropped his pen at fairing closeout and didn’t notice it until it was too late to say anything. Second guess: a satellite factory tech hid-away a joint and wasn’t able to get back to it.

  • lawebber says:
    December 11, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    Ok. Maybe not the first spliff in space then?

  • DougM says:
    December 11, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    leelu ^
    *heh*
    I doubt if there are many “firsts” of that ilk left to be done;
    but, hey, Elon’s not finished yet

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