Night launch
Good vid, especially the separation events
(payload deployment ~T+47m)
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 iSpace HAKUTO-R Moon Lander)
Night launch
Good vid, especially the separation events
(payload deployment ~T+47m)
Night launch
Good vid, especially the separation events
(payload deployment ~T+47m)
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?
^ 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.
Ok. Maybe not the first spliff in space then?
leelu ^
*heh*
I doubt if there are many “firsts” of that ilk left to be done;
but, hey, Elon’s not finished yet