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Not sure why there are so many questions asking what was the launch about. It was a starlink satellite launch into low Earth orbit. This group was for 14 satellites, I believe.
You mean with "Antennas" the Launch Tower or Errector? Well, if you would put three around a rocket, the rocket would collide. A launch tower needs always to "go away" from a rocket. The rocket is doing lift-off straight first, and when you see it looks like the rocket does make a short sidemove on the pad. But, it is not the rocket, it is the pad which is moving away from the rocket, because of Earth rotation. So, doesn't matter where you launch, a launch tower has always to be placed "East" of the rocket because of Earth roation (from the west to the east), that during the lift-off, the tower will move away from the rocket. Now think about, if you would have 3 "launch towers". Hopefully, that answers your question.
@@comcastjohn Then we do not understand what you are talking about. There is no antenna on the rocket. Receivers and senders are integrated in the rocket's fuselage. When you are talking about the "honeycomb" structure which you see in the image on the left side on the rocket, these are grid-fins which are deployed after staging and helping the rocket to steer through the denser layers of the altitude. There are four of them installed, always in 90-degree angle from each other.
I was away from home at lift-off & wasn't in a position to hear the launch. Look at that amazing view back to the foggy California coast! But we got home shortly before the sonic boom, which really rattled the whole house!
