That never gets old!!
That never gets old!!
Was I watching the wrong feed? Looked like a hose was leaking on the 2nd stage burn and then let loose. The engine immediately stopped glowing and the feed stopped very shortly thereafter.
I guess the 2nd stage was already done since SpaceX says the Dragon made orbit.
David
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The second stage does vent some gas, nothing I saw seamed different. I wounder if the NASA feed stops at seco? Anyway theres not much more after that. Dragon seperation and array deploy, takes a few days to actually get to ISS so they dont show that.
Great shots of staging and boast back as well as landing
I just read online that the two outboard boosters on the Falcon 9 Heavy configuration are used boosters but I'm wondering how that can be. I had thought that there was some plan to cross-connect the fuel of the three boosters so that when the outer two detached, the center booster had a "full tank" of fuel. Is that not being done on this first launch (or at all) or have they found a way to retrofit old boosters to add this capability?
The cross-feed of fuel to the central core was dropped a while back. Either to keep it simple or because of some other constraint that it made better, or both, I suspect.
As I understand it the central core will be throttled down and the outboards will be at max, which will give the central core a longer burn time. After releasing the outer boosters the central core will throttle up.
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A friend of mine was a chaperone on a class trip to the Cape last week and not only saw the launch but got this pic. I suspect the core for the Heavy.
SpaceX just launched.
Show seen from Phoenix was spectacular.
Will try to post pics
Just saw this on Facebook. Man that was neato!
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