[Encore] Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with satellite for India

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 13:09:37 | Updated at 2024-11-19 15:13:25 2 hours ago

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59:36	·	...10 9 8 7 6 5 4
59:43	·	3 2 1 engine ignition and liftoff of the
59:49	·	falcon9 rocket with a gat N2 Mission Falcon 9 has cleared the
59:55	·	tower e
1:00:12	·	[Music]
1:00:26	·	[Music]
1:00:49	·	and a good lift off of the Falcon 9 rocket so far
1:00:58	·	little more than a minute into flight the Falcon 9 now traveling faster than the speed of sound approaching Max
1:01:09	·	Q Max Q represents the point of greatest a dynamic pressure on the vehicle did
1:01:14	·	hear that call for Max Q we're coming up on a few events now in
1:01:22	·	Fairly rapid succession
1:01:27	·	we'll see first stage main ENT cut off or Mo at about t plus 2 minutes and 26
1:01:33	·	seconds that'll be followed seconds later by stage separation about 6 seconds after that by the ignition of
1:01:40	·	the Merlin vacuum engine and then the payload fairings will separate about 3 minutes and 17 seconds into flight
1:02:10	·	you can see actually a nice shadow on the cloud just beneath the falcon9
1:02:15	·	rocket the ascent
1:02:23	·	plume nice little visual tip there to this
1:02:31	·	launch main engine cut off stage separation
1:02:39	·	confirmed and recognition all good call outs from
1:02:47	·	SpaceX good sequence there Merlin fact he mentioned coming to life and you can
1:02:53	·	see that first stage booster heading back towards
1:03:09	·	Earth coming up on fairing separation here momentarily great views of both stages in Flight right now you can see
1:03:15	·	the first stage on the left side of your screen now in a coast phase and the second stage on the right side of your
1:03:21	·	screen burning towards orbit
1:03:30	·	and there we go great news just saw those two fairing halves separate our payload Gat N2 is now exposed to the
1:03:37	·	vacuum of space heading now t+ 3 minutes 58 seconds and
1:03:45	·	counting in real time 350 on the SpaceX feed good Ascent so far of this Mission
1:03:52	·	some nice views of the Gat N2
1:04:00	·	satellite at this point the next Milestone that's coming up is the first stage entry burn which will come up at
1:04:07	·	about t plus 6 minutes and 13
1:04:17	·	seconds first stage booster appears to have reached its apy here at about 122
1:04:23	·	kilometers in altitude
1:04:32	·	once the entry burn Begins the falcon9 first stage will start to slow
1:04:38	·	dramatically you'll see the speedometer plummet quite
1:04:52	·	rapidly SpaceX uses uh Trio of its Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 first
1:04:58	·	stage booster to conduct the entry burn coming up in just about a minute at this
1:05:24	·	point it's good view use from the inner stage there on the left hand side of
1:05:30	·	your screen good flight of the second stage so far as well
1:06:03	·	coming up on the entry burn
1:06:16	·	here heard the call for stage one entry burn as well as the safing of the FTS
1:06:24	·	the flight termination system now no longer needed at this stage in
1:06:34	·	Flight with this burn lasting roughly 20 seconds or so
1:06:41	·	you can see the speedometer quite quickly dropping here as the entry burn
1:06:46	·	has completed Falcon 9 now slowing as well through atmospheric drag
1:07:00	·	the periodic bursts that you'll see in between those two Hypersonic grid fins
1:07:05	·	are the Colt gas thrusters on the Falcon's first stage help to adjust the
1:07:10	·	attitude or the positioning of the Falcon 9 first AG booster as it makes its way down towards the Drone ship just
1:07:17	·	read the instructions
1:07:37	·	first stage now traveling below the speed of sound now unlike a starling commission
1:07:44	·	we'll actually see the first stage Landing burn begin almost in sequence
1:07:51	·	with the cut off of the Merlin vacuum engine so they'll happen about a second
1:07:59	·	apart call for the landing burn and call for M back
1:08:14	·	shutdown nominal orbital insertion stage one leaning L deploy
1:08:26	·	stage one Landing confirmed and for a 19th time this first
1:08:32	·	stage booster b173 has landed once again
1:08:41	·	safely this Landing Mark spacex's 371st booster Landing to date and the 998th
1:08:48	·	booster Landing for this particular drone ship just read the
1:08:53	·	instructions nice view of of the Gat N2
1:08:58	·	satellite as it continues on its way coming up next will be the reignition of
1:09:05	·	the Merlin vacuum engine on the second stage at about t+ 26 minutes 41 seconds
1:09:11	·	it'll be a burn of a little bit more than a minute setting up for the deployment of the
1:09:17	·	satellite just about 33 minutes and 58 seconds post liftoff
1:09:26	·	it's a really nice clear views of this satellite as the sun is hitting it at a really nice
1:09:34	·	angle mailing on countdown one I wanted to say a special word for Michael Taylor
1:09:40	·	as this will be his final mission he has been at the Forefront of space flight for the United States for several
1:09:47	·	decades we would not be where we are today where in United States Space Program history without him and we'd not
1:09:54	·	be where we are today at SpaceX without Mike Taylor so from all of us at SpaceX
1:09:59	·	Mike We Salute You we thank you and we look forward to your future
1:10:06	·	Journeys great words there from our LD and congrats on an amazing career Mike
1:10:18	·	Taylor some good Awards there to their SpaceX colleague amid this ongoing flight which
1:10:26	·	is about a third of the way through now post
1:10:41	·	liftoff is a Next Generation communication satellite owned by nsil
1:10:46	·	weighing 4,700 kg built by is for meeting the
1:10:52	·	high throughput communication requirements it's operating in K Band uh
1:10:58	·	providing almost 48 gabes per second throughput uh this spacecraft is after
1:11:05	·	the launch is going to be positioned at 68° east longitude uh providing
1:11:10	·	Broadband services and inflight connectivity primarily on the Indian region there are going to be uh about 32
1:11:18	·	sport beams uh covering India Mainland and islands of this region and primarily
1:11:24	·	this is designed to also to enhance the capacity by providing eight narrow sport beams over the northeastern region of
1:11:31	·	India which requires this support for uh essential communication requirements the whole spacecraft is
1:11:38	·	designed using the isos well proven i6k bus with a 6.2 Kow power generation
1:11:46	·	operating in 70 volts bus voltage and uh the propell system is a
1:11:51	·	bipropellant system for Ortiz and its station keep keeping and we are expecting that it's uh precise launching
1:11:59	·	we will have an orbital life of almost 14 years while building the space card we
1:12:05	·	used the support of Indian Industries who built us with the lot of subsystems including structures and Hardwares meant
1:12:13	·	for the satellites and also the Bots and uh is centers contributed in various
1:12:18	·	ways to build the satellite finally uh I'm really happy that the satellite is now ready for launch and uh uh will
1:12:26	·	reach its destined orbit meantime in the ground to asasa satl is in the required
1:12:32	·	sport we are ready with the ground infrastructure to provide the network of communication very very fast as soon as
1:12:38	·	it is made declared operational hoping to see the launch uh go really fine and
1:12:45	·	all the very best to the team
1:12:59	·	and with some good words from the Indian space research organization leadership
1:13:05	·	we are now in the aformentioned coast phase you can see the Telemetry of the
1:13:10	·	second stage now cruising over the heart of the Atlantic Ocean making its way
1:13:16	·	towards the western coast of the continent of Africa currently t+ 13 minutes 27
1:13:25	·	seconds and counting from the SpaceX feed which is where we'll be getting our visuals from here on
1:13:31	·	out again the next Milestone that we're looking for is coming up in about 13 or
1:13:37	·	roughly 12ish minutes from now when the second stage engine the Merlin vacuum
1:13:43	·	engine will reignite for about a 65 second
1:13:48	·	burn positioning the satellite to be deployed at about t plus 33 minutes and
1:13:54	·	58 seconds
1:14:22	·	as we continue to track the progress of that second stage on its way towards spacecraft deployment do want to thank a
1:14:29	·	few more folks for your support in our live launch coverage today the third and less than 24 hours
1:14:36	·	it's been a blistering Pace here thanks to uh jabel Zimmerman apologies if I
1:14:45	·	mispronounced your name there but appreciate the $10 Super Chat and the kind of wordss saying thanks for the coverage appreciate you jelle
1:14:55	·	Trinity AKA mommy mama t one of our wonderful channel members also with a $10 Super Chat saying thank you to the
1:15:01	·	awesome mods I agree we have I would argue the best moderators in the game
1:15:06	·	another Channel member Mitchell Wilbur with a very generous $20 Super Chat thank you Mitchell good to see this
1:15:12	·	afternoon says good job all involved appreciate that support Patty
1:15:17	·	chel $5 Super Chat good to see you again Patty who says awesomeness thank you
1:15:23	·	space flight now thank you mods and live chat peeps I was a great time thank
1:15:29	·	you and appreciate spikes as well with a 5B Super Chat as
1:15:41	·	well I see our moderator Mark Otto has also joined
1:15:46	·	us helping us out here in the live chat appreciate you mark popping in here and
1:15:52	·	of course as we're getting ready for the deployment here between now and flight 6
1:15:58	·	we do have a mission preview up on the channel here on YouTube so you can go ahead and take a look at what we are
1:16:05	·	anticipating what SpaceX is planning for flight 6 not only just talking about the
1:16:12	·	mission from our understanding of it but we also had the opportunity to speak oneon-one with the member of NASA's
1:16:20	·	astronaut office NASA astronaut Randy bresnik who helps oversee some of the
1:16:26	·	testing and checkouts and offers feedback on all of the human involved
1:16:32	·	parts of the Artemis architecture so we had a great conversation with him last week part of
1:16:39	·	that is embedded within the video currently up on the channel we're working on getting that full
1:16:44	·	conversation up on the channel a daily later today so you can have that ahead of launch as well so be
1:16:52	·	looking forward to that and again you can watch our Mission preview right
1:16:58	·	now whenever you want to get a little bit of inspiration on what's ahead not
1:17:03	·	only for flight six but for starship's role as the human Landing system for the
1:17:10	·	emis
1:17:23	·	program
1:17:53	·	e
1:18:23	·	e
1:18:53	·	e e
1:19:42	·	now currently t+ 19 minutes 58 seconds in
1:19:49	·	counting so far the Flight of the second stage of the falcon rocket continues on
1:19:56	·	well with this
1:20:02	·	Mission at present the upper stage is about to pass over the coast of
1:20:10	·	Sagal continuing on with the mission
1:20:23	·	here e
1:20:55	·	as we are awaiting the deployment of the Gat N2 satellite want to go ahead and
1:21:01	·	take a look back now at Star base in southern Texas SpaceX completed a fueling test of
1:21:10	·	its Starship Rocket yesterday and is working towards the
1:21:16	·	launch of this vehicle on flight Six coming up tomorrow in the late afternoon uh 400 PM
1:21:23	·	Central Time liftoff 500 p.m. Eastern 2200
1:21:32	·	UTC the reason they're looking at a later launch than the previous flights
1:21:38	·	is so they can get a daylight splash down of the ship upper stage in the
1:21:43	·	waters of the Indian
1:21:49	·	Ocean reportedly there have been some Marine vessels that have departed
1:21:56	·	from the coast of Australia to deploy some buoys out in the water to capture
1:22:02	·	video of the entry similar to the ones that we saw
1:22:07	·	used during flight five so presumably those will also be
1:22:13	·	equipped with spacex's starlink satellite internet capabilities and we'll get some good live views of ship
1:22:19	·	upper stage as it makes its way down towards a softwater splash down if all
1:22:25	·	goes well with this
1:22:53	·	mission e
1:23:48	·	now tus 26 minutes 41 seconds in counting
1:23:55	·	excuse me 23 minutes uh or now 24 minutes and Counting looking at the next
1:24:00	·	fueling Milestone that I was going to
1:24:06	·	relay so I to put that in the the right order we're about 24 minutes 15 seconds
1:24:13	·	and counting into the mission just about 2ish minutes away
1:24:20	·	from the start of that second stage engine burn for a second time
1:24:29	·	we've got a visual now of the upper stage looks like it's peeking into an
1:24:36	·	orbital sunset or an orbital Sunrise a little hard to
1:24:53	·	tell e
1:25:38	·	first space six the recovery vessel Bob was on Deck to scoop up the fairing
1:25:44	·	halves one half flying for a first time the other half flying for a fifth time
1:25:54	·	we're now about 30 40 seconds on the SpaceX feed away from the ignition of
1:26:02	·	the Merlin vacuum engine
1:26:10	·	here take a moment to briefly share a launch photo from our photographer Michael Kane of the liftoff of this
1:26:17	·	falcon9 rocket beginning its Journey here now just about 26 minutes ago
1:26:26	·	coming up on roughly 10 seconds away from the ignition of that Merlin vacuum engion let's go ahead and listen in for
1:26:33	·	the call
1:26:41	·	out and V
1:26:48	·	ignition good ignition of that Merlin vacuum engine
1:26:57	·	with this burn they will accelerate into the geostationary transfer orbit into
1:27:02	·	which the Gat N2 satellite will be
1:27:08	·	deployed this burn lasting a little more than a minute in
1:27:23	·	total e
1:27:59	·	call for the shutdown of the Merlin vacuum engine
1:28:21	·	here nice view of the satellite here with a good burn for a second time of
1:28:27	·	that Merlin vacuum engine the upper stage will Coast for
1:28:35	·	just a few minutes here before the deployment of the satellite coming up at about t plus 33 minutes and 58 seconds
1:29:09	·	taking a look at our live chat here uh one of the folks in the chat Chris Cotter asking when we were showing those
1:29:16	·	views of star base asking if that was an open Highway running past
1:29:21	·	Starship he says I've seen people take really close pictures and yes in fact
1:29:26	·	State Road 4 which is a road that extends from Brownsville out to boa
1:29:32	·	Chica Beach is a publicly accessible road so as you can see those cars going
1:29:37	·	to and from some of them will be SpaceX employees but especially around the time
1:29:43	·	when we're just about a day ahead of launch things get really busy down here
1:29:48	·	and you have a lot of folks from not only the Rio Grand Valley Community
1:29:54	·	coming down to check out the rocket fully stacked but also a lot of
1:30:00	·	journalists uh hobbyists space enthusiasts fols from various parts of
1:30:05	·	the country and the world come down to see this rocket one of the closest places in the world where you can see an
1:30:13	·	actual piece of flight Hardware without any type of special security clearance
1:31:22	·	e e
1:32:01	·	now t+ 32 minutes 6 seconds and counting from the SpaceX
1:32:10	·	feed we're coming up on the final couple of minutes prior to the deployment of
1:32:17	·	the Gat N2
1:32:22	·	satellite e
1:32:55	·	now less than a minute to satellite
1:33:03	·	deployment at an altitude now for the second stage of 730 M or
1:33:10	·	kilometers upper stage of the falcon9 rocket now well above the orbiting altitude of the
1:33:17	·	International Space Station which orbits at about 400 km above sea level
1:33:37	·	as we're approaching Halo deployment let's go ahead and listen
1:33:43	·	into that final call out
1:34:02	·	Gat N2 payload deploy confirmed and a good deployment of GAD
1:34:10	·	and2
1:34:48	·	with a good deployment of the satellite we'll turn to our mission stats they currently stand in just a moment we're
1:34:54	·	just letting the final views of that play out as you can see
1:35:00	·	the strong back there at space launch complex 40 has also been brought into
1:35:05	·	the upright position as is PR usual here
1:35:11	·	part of spacex's process and turning around this pad as quickly as possible
1:35:16	·	for future launches
1:35:26	·	with a good liftoff and landing of the first stage booster a good deployment of
1:35:31	·	the Gat N2 satellite going to go ahead and close things out here with a look at the mission stats as they currently
1:35:38	·	stand briefly want to thank a couple more folks for their support before we get there though thanks to Paul camish
1:35:44	·	with a 5 pound Super Chat appreciate that Paul saying just want to say congratulations and to Lillian Manis
1:35:52	·	with a $5 Super Chat as well it's a little bit of support there thank you Lillian really appreciate
1:36:02	·	that and let's go ahead and put a pin in this with a look at the mission stats as
1:36:08	·	they currently stand this was the 19th flight of this particular First St booster
1:36:15	·	actually a little bit of a typo there it's 1073 not 1076 this was the 39 8 Falcon 9 launch
1:36:25	·	to date the 113th Falcon 9 launch of 2024 the 343rd Falcon booster reflight
1:36:33	·	or the launch of a booster that has flown at least once this is spacex's
1:36:38	·	115th orbital launch of the year including two Falcon heavy launches this was the 127th orbital
1:36:45	·	launch within the last 365 days the 217th orbital launch from pad 40 and the
1:36:54	·	272nd overall orbital launch from this pad as
1:37:01	·	well here's a look at a graphical representation of the Falcon family of rockets from year to year as we sit at5
1:37:10	·	so far with the Falcon 9 Falcon heavy joined together moving on to some recovery stats this was the 998th
1:37:16	·	booster landing on the Drone ship just read the instructions the 292nd drone
1:37:22	·	ship landing and the 3 371st overall SpaceX booster Landing to date finally
1:37:27	·	with some Global orbital stats this was the 81st orbital launch from Florida this year the 122nd orbital launch from
1:37:36	·	us soil the 133rd orbital launch from us rocket company and the 217th orbital
1:37:43	·	launch attempt from around the world six orbital maps on the year so far here's
1:37:49	·	where the pie chart currently stands with the US continuing to hold 61 % of the pi China
1:37:56	·	26 and Russia with 6% themselves and that'll go ahead and do
1:38:03	·	it for us three Falcon 9 flights less than 24 hours and now my friends our
1:38:10	·	attention from a live launch coverage standpoint pivots from here in Florida
1:38:15	·	and from California to down in Texas where spacex's Starship rocket is
1:38:22	·	preparing to lift off as soon as 400 p.m. central 5:00 p.m. Eastern 2200 UTC
1:38:29	·	tomorrow afternoon we'll of course have robust
1:38:36	·	live launch coverage leading up to that again you could see a mission preview right now on the YouTube channel look
1:38:43	·	for the live stream to join live as well if you haven't already be sure to subscribe to space flight now turn on
1:38:48	·	notifications that way you'll be alerted when we do start our live launch coverage
1:38:54	·	and we look forward to seeing you back here then as we join with our friends at lab Padre to bring you coverage of
1:39:01	·	Starship flight 6 want to thank our moderators in the live chat for helping us out with live
1:39:08	·	launch coverage today for this Mission a thanks to Mark AO to kalista Lee to
1:39:13	·	Aussie space girl for all your help today to Russy shackford for hanging out over on Launchpad live our
1:39:20	·	24-hour live pad View stream here on YouTube thanks to our wonderful Channel
1:39:26	·	member Community for making these streams possible big thanks to Michael Kane for running the tracking
1:39:33	·	camera getting a static photo of the Falcon 9 as it took flight as well you could find him on X at MD Kane
1:39:43	·	Jr andna Bernstein's turn is coming up tomorrow with the launch of Starship
1:39:48	·	flight 6 you can find him on X as well he said aurn NYC thanks to our space
1:39:54	·	flight now editor Stephen young for running the technical operations of the program here and most of all thanks to
1:40:00	·	you for wherever you chose to watch this launch from here in Florida or elsewhere
1:40:05	·	around this big old world of ours for all of us here at space flight
1:40:12	·	now I'm Will Robinson Smith remember be good to yourselves be good to others and we will see you next time folks and
1:40:18	·	until then bye-bye