SpaceX: Falcon Heavy first commercial launch

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#248865 13-Apr-2019 10:50

Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Falcon Heavy’s centre core landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone-ship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean

Successful launch and returned all three first-stage boosters for re-use!
Amazing!!

https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g
[actual launch is about 19:45 from beginning of webcast]

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#2216415 13-Apr-2019 12:01

Yep - the vertical landings of the three boosters are truly impressive.

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#2216416 13-Apr-2019 12:02

Seeing those boosters land upright gives be goose bumps every time. Amazing.

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#2216433 13-Apr-2019 12:39

eracode: Yep - the vertical landings of the three boosters are truly impressive.

I only saw two actually land?

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#2216500 13-Apr-2019 14:13

The video feed of third centre booster landing on ship cuts out just as it lands but then a couple of minutes later there's video of it on the barge.

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#2216502 13-Apr-2019 14:16

afe66: The video feed of third centre booster landing on ship cuts out just as it lands but then a couple of minutes later there's video of it on the barge.

I know, I watched the video and that's why I made my comment.

It's a conspiracy - don't want to scare off the investors seeing it crash :)

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#2216658 13-Apr-2019 20:11

Landings only cut:

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#2217034 14-Apr-2019 17:40

afe66: Seeing those boosters land upright gives be goose bumps every time. Amazing.

IMO it is more impressive than making it into space. Must use a lot of fuel though compared to just using chutes. But guessing there is less damage an no costs in retrieving them via sea.

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#2217079 14-Apr-2019 20:03

clevedon:

afe66: The video feed of third centre booster landing on ship cuts out just as it lands but then a couple of minutes later there's video of it on the barge.

I know, I watched the video and that's why I made my comment.

It's a conspiracy - don't want to scare off the investors seeing it crash :)

For some of the earlier landings/crashes on the barge they had footage from a heli.

But guessing that was an extra cost they could do without at the moment. I'm also guessing that seeing as the barge for this was was much longer down range than a lot of their earlier missions with Falcon 9 that it may very well have been out of heli range.

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