I was lucky enough to be on-base for this launch and landing. The sound was something else.
Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
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#22Did the center booster land? What timecode was that at?
i believe the orbit and mass requirement meant there was no fuel left for landing the center stage. I think the configuration where they can't re-use the booster is called "full thrust".
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#23Now that Falcon 9 landings have become so routine, it feels surprisingly wasteful to see that mission profile with the center booster burning up without even trying. I wanted to write something about that lack of center booster reuse on falcon heavy feeling irrationally worse than a single F9 launch in the non-reusable profile (for a slightly higher payload iirc), but then I discovered that the non-reusable F9 profil…
Edit: Units... I'd be the one going in mph through the surface of mars. ~The booster was going 12km/sec at MECO, which is more than escape velocity. What they're doing with the second boost, they're not telling anyone.~
The booster was doing 14,000km/h at MECO which is about 3.8km/s. Orbital velocity is 7-7.5km/s depending on altitude and escape velocity is even higher, so no, it was not at escape velocity or anywhere near it.
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#24I was lucky enough to be on-base for this launch and landing. The sound was something else.
Quadruple booms right?
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#25Now that Falcon 9 landings have become so routine, it feels surprisingly wasteful to see that mission profile with the center booster burning up without even trying. I wanted to write something about that lack of center booster reuse on falcon heavy feeling irrationally worse than a single F9 launch in the non-reusable profile (for a slightly higher payload iirc), but then I discovered that the non-reusable F9 profil…
Edit: Units... I'd be the one going in mph through the surface of mars. ~The booster was going 12km/sec at MECO, which is more than escape velocity. What they're doing with the second boost, they're not telling anyone.~
No, it was going 14,240km/hr according to the video, which is about 4km/sec. Not near escape velocity.
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#26The way the boosters land feels so alien and CGI-like. I'm curious how close you can get to viewing the landings in real life, would really love to take a trip to do that at some point.
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#28The couple seconds of tracking camera footage of the boosters coming back down looked amazing. I wish it wasn't so foggy at the pad! When the second stage separates there's a few cables that are flying around. Does anyone know what those are used for? Electrical connections between the stages maybe?
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#29The view from below of the boosters after entry burn where you can clearly see they're not just falling straight down but actually achieving some horizontal velocity across the ground was really cool. I've always known that they had some cross-range capability, but this was a really excellent visualization of it!
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