SpaceX Landing - Nails It - Clip Just In

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Falcon 9 First Stage Landing, From Helicopter


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Extended 45 Minute Mission Video - promo-ish, ORBCOMM-2 Full Launch Webcast

With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions. The ORBCOMM launch is targeted for an evening launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. If all goes as planned, the 11 satellites will be deployed approximately 20 minutes after liftoff, completing a 17-satellite, low Earth orbit constellation for ORBCOMM. This mission also marks SpaceX’s return-to-flight as well as its first attempt to land a first stage on land. The landing of the first stage is a secondary test objective.

[longship]

1. I recommend the whole video.

I watched it twice tonight and it is very good. I have not been this enthused since the Saturn V. Elon Musk has something going because he stuck that first stage right on the bullseye. Plus, they put 11 satellites into orbit, right on target.

Houston. Be advised. Elon Musk is a steely-eyed missile man.

(Homage to Andy Weir, Mark Watney, Commander Melissa Lewis and the rest of the Mars Ares 3 Hermes crew.)

[diverdownjt]

2. simply fantastic.

The future is now...way to go SpaceX.

[Quackers]

3. WOOHOO!

[Jerry442]

4. Dunno why, but...

...makes me happy that those old sci-fi types had it right all along. Parachute, schmarachute.