Live! Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket, maiden flight

[editor]

Love the whooping in the background. SCIENCE!

 

[Crispy]

Even the sheep is cheering

 

[editor]

Separation!

 

[Crispy]

Fantastically clear skies for this. Landing is going to be just as amazing as last time

 

[editor]

Fucking incredible

 

[Crispy]

Unreal

 

[Crispy]

More to come!

 

[editor]

Yeah!

 

[Crispy]

3 for 3!

 

[Limejuice]

Well, that was worth waiting for.

 

[joustmaster]

That's pretty special

 

[Crispy]

Don't forget, 90% of the rocket we just saw launch will fly again in 3 months or so. Bonkers.

 

[editor]

Funny how the word 'nominal' has become such a space thing.

 

[editor]

So what happens to the craft that the satellite was released from?

 

[souljacker]

Wow. That was astonishing.

 

[souljacker]

For anyone who didn't watch it live, the two boosters are on the left and right cameras.:

 

[editor]

As a news item, that was more interesting that approximately 300 billion billion celebrity stories

 

[Crispy]

So what happens to the craft that the satellite was released from?

The second stage gets deorbited and burns up. They were going to work on making it reusable but decided to concentrate on Starship instead.

Although they have figured out how to recover the fairing, which saves another $5m or so.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Astonishing.

 

[ferrelhadley]

SpaceX retrieves Falcon Heavy fairings from sea for reuse on future launch – Spaceflight Now

Fairings to be reused on a SpaceX cargo'd flight.

 

[a_chap]

From take off to landing: filmed from the ground

 

[a_chap]

I sometimes wonder what 1960s NASA employees would have made of the Falcon Heavy and its real-time coverage of launch/re-landing.

 

[2hats]

An 8 minute exposure from the Maldives that caught the FH's payload, Arabsat 6A, and second stage burning to supersynchronous transfer orbit (approx. 200 x 90000 km) about 28 minutes after launch (vehicle moving from right to left in this image):

 

[a_chap]

Here's a slightly different view of the launch. Don't miss the boosters landing either!

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Only one soundtrack possible!

 

[Lord Camomile]

T-6 minutes

 

[JuanTwoThree]

From Sputnik and Telstar to this in my lifetime!

 

[BoxRoom]

T-6 minutes

Awesome stuff!

 

[Crispy]

That wasn't live, but a replay of the Arabsat launch. There are several YouTube channels rebroadcasting the SpaceX streams .

The next actual FH is scheduled for 22 June

 

[Spymaster]

T-6 minutes

I will never get bored of watching this stuff!