On Saturday, May 14 at 4:40 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
There will be a time when it’ll be just a few hours, even minutes apart. In fact, they were aiming for these two missions to be only 8 hours apart, before delays made it 22.5 hours
Still never gets old watching the first stage land back on Earth. Something NASA said couldn't be done is now done routinely almost every week. Looking forward to the future boost to my Internet link!
Interesting that they chose an internal Starlink launch to debut this new booster, suggesting few (if any) outside customers still have qualms about a flight-proven one. More often these Starlink missions get used more to prove out the envelope on reuse, as with recent 12th and 13th flights
@@tomanderson8251 Starlink performance from moving vehicles is improving, and I guess a phased-array antenna could fit in the interstage, but they probably wouldn't want to incur the mass penalty of carrying that all the way up. I think both S1 & S2 transmit from small omni antennas on S-band (there are FCC filings showing exact frequencies), which can be relayed via the launch site at first, but likely switches to either the barge or a nearby support ship once over the horizon, and on to a satellite from there. (For S2 you can hear the callouts of ground-station handovers). Watching the landing again, there was still a slight breakup on touchdown (either from disturbance to the barge's position if the uplink is there, or maybe water vapr in the exhaust plume infringing on line-of-sight), but much shorter of one than previously
People do not understand how badass is the landing sequence. Everything is parametric and calibrated to the decimal. It's the full glory of robotics, rocket science and computations with high performance computers. It's always a joyride watching these.
Not to mention the inherent unpredictability of winds and (to lesser degree) sea state in those final seconds, and the fact that a rocket stage moving engine-bells first through the air isn't exactly aerodynamically stable! Such impressive work, whoever developed and fine-tuned their control algorithms
Starlink has changed our lives. We live in a rural area and the best we could get was HughesNet which was expensive, limited, and slow. We got Starlink and finally can stream Netflix, Hulu, RU-vid, etc. Not to mention everything else. Thank you Elon!!!
Seeing a rocket take off was once a more or less once in a lifetime thing. At least watching it live. Now SpaceX launches a new rocket every other day AND they land again…on a autonomous droneship in the ocean…every…single…time! Just mindblowing. In a few years (or more like decades) it will be normal to have a spaceport in your country, getting from every point on the earth in minutes than 12-16 hours…or video chatting with friends and relatives on the moon base. Inspiring times we live in. Thx Elon and the awesome SpaceX team!
@@unotechrih8040 is it stable now? I remember i used it at my friend's house(a year ago) and it was frequently disconnecting. I trust elon, he makes his products better in a very short amount of time
Thank you SpaceX for broadcasting these launches. So nice to see the incredible engineering on display. Something that is so difficult is made to seem so easy.
@@TechWithBrett (Great news about the space-time bubble engine (warp drive) so we ask experimental physicists and engineers to use multiple experiments in order to create flight engines to travel at the speed of light between planets and regions on planet Earth) "This brings us to the new study, which scientists in the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory (APL) at Applied Physics just published in the peer-reviewed journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. In the report, the APL team unveils the world’s first model for a physical warp drive-one that doesn’t require negative energy. 👇👇👇 The study is understandably pretty thick (read the whole thing here), but here’s the gist of the model: Where the existing paradigm uses negative energy-exotic matter that doesn’t exist and can’t be generated within our current understanding of the universe-this new concept uses floating bubbles of spacetime rather than floating ships in spacetime so we ask experimental physicists and engineers to use multiple experiments in order to create flight engines to travel at the speed of light between planets and regions on planet Earth (Please send these requests to physicists and engineers in the aviation engine industry and mechanical engineering)
@@alexblack4470 (Great news about the space-time bubble engine (warp drive) so we ask experimental physicists and engineers to use multiple experiments in order to create flight engines to travel at the speed of light between planets and regions on planet Earth) "This brings us to the new study, which scientists in the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory (APL) at Applied Physics just published in the peer-reviewed journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. In the report, the APL team unveils the world’s first model for a physical warp drive-one that doesn’t require negative energy. 👇👇👇 The study is understandably pretty thick (read the whole thing here), but here’s the gist of the model: Where the existing paradigm uses negative energy-exotic matter that doesn’t exist and can’t be generated within our current understanding of the universe-this new concept uses floating bubbles of spacetime rather than floating ships in spacetime so we ask experimental physicists and engineers to use multiple experiments in order to create flight engines to travel at the speed of light between planets and regions on planet Earth (Please send these requests to physicists and engineers in the aviation engine industry and mechanical engineering)
We hope for more experiments in order to test the power of the engine and take advantage of errors and failed experiments because failure is the way to success and progress in the development of the light speed engine (EM Drive) Light Speed Engine (EM Drive)
We ask technicians and engineers to design and develop flight engines that operate at the speed of light in the field of aviation, and this is in order to teleport in the regions of the planet Earth and reach planets similar to Earth, such as (TOI-1231 b) Planet and (Gliese 486b)Planet and (TOI 700d) Planet Therefore, the design of engines and tests of flight engines at the speed of light must be expedited in order to turn science fiction into reality You should take advantage of this lost time in order to travel at the speed of light in space and enjoy these wonderful beautiful planets like (TOI-1231 b) Planet and (Gliese 486b)Planet and (TOI 700d) Planet (Please send the names of the planets and these requests also to the experimental physicists and engineers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Thank you space-x for letting us see these launches! I know you guys really don’t have to, but we are such fans of the work you do and watching these birds fly just never get old! You guys ROCK!
First time for this booster and again a picture perfect landing. 120 landings... WOW. I'm truly loving what SpaceX is doing for us, meaning human civilisation, and their great work of getting us to space. What a time to be alive and witness this. I think in some way this is the real start of us becoming a space faring civilisation. @SpaceX keep up the amazing work.
They said it would be the 120th in the intro but then said 111th after the landing! At the beginning of their previous launch they said it would be their 112th! I think they've had so many crossings out and changes to the script that they've lost accurate track! :-p :-)
@@MartinSlucutt 120th total first stage landings, which includes 113 Falcon 9 landings. Other 7 are Falcon Heavy booster landings. Thats the count right now.
Just watched the telemetry closely and found something that amazed me! Even after shutting down the main engine at an altitude of 65 kilometers, the booster still ascends until an altitude of 116 kilometers before gravity wins and pulls him back! May be old knowledge for you, but me, I am amazed by that!
Yup, look up typical flight profiles of ballistic missiles, which is what S1 is at that point- their "boost phase" can be surprisingly short. I'm glad SpaceX shows both S1 and S2 telemetry now. Full instantaeous orbital elements (apogee, perigee which starts off very negative, right ascension etc.) would be even better. ULA used to broadcast those, but stopped after they got in trouble from revealing too much on a classified DoD launch
Once again, this was just amazing to watch!! SpaceX makes it look so effortless, yet it's incredibly complicated. The accuracy of the booster landing, I'd say SpaceX has mastered launching and recovering orbital class rockets!!!
My observation was that the host of this video did an exceptional job explaining various parts of the flight. I’ve seen dozens of these videos and this one was the best narrated.
It always gives me joy to see how casual ans easy these landings may look to a casual viewer😂 Kudos to spacex, we've to see starship achieving success this year too!
I certainly miss the longer videos all the way to payload deployment, but thank you for the video it’s very kind of you to take the time to let us watch your fantastic progress in lodging mass to orbit