A Super Heavy rocket booster launched a Starship upper stage for SpaceX’s fifth flight test of a fully integrated Starship, from Starbase, Texas, on 13 October 2024, at 12:25 UTC (07:25 CDT).
According to SpaceX, “the primary objectives will be attempting the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster and another Starship reentry and landing burn, aiming for an on-target splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean”.

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Tonight during the Intelsat Galaxy 33 & 34 mission, I captured SpaceX’s Falcon 9 transiting the disc of the full Moon after liftoff from SLC-40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer with the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, wrote on Twitter that what people saw in the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night was part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched in early March. The debris was re-entering the atmosphere after 22 days in orbit, he said.

https://twitter.com/vincelavecchia/status/1375297806307532800

It literally flew right over my place pic.twitter.com/yardEUmKG2

— Popular Stranger (@PopluarStranger) March 26, 2021

Cornelius Or. pic.twitter.com/QrLfbnUGCB

— Erik Rasmussen (@Rasmusse007) March 26, 2021

SpaceX Starship SN10 prototype launched to an altitude of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) and landed 6 minutes and 20 seconds after liftoff. Several minutes later the rocket exploded.

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When Falcon Heavy lifted off, it became the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb)—a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel–Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost.

Following liftoff, the two side boosters separated from the center core and returned to landing site for future reuse.

Falcon Heavy put a Tesla Roadster and its passenger, Starman, into orbit around the sun. At max velocity Starman and the Roadster will travel 11 km/s (7mi/s) and travel 400 million km (250 million mi) from Earth.

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Besonders beeindruckend: die Landung.

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Double Sonic Boost:

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Letzten Freitag startete SpaceX ihre Falcon 9 Rakete, die über dem Himmel Südkaliforniens so spektakuläre Bilder abgab, dass nicht wenige Anwohner wegen vermeintlichen UFO-Alarms die Polizei informierten. Jetzt gibt es ein Timelapse-Video des Starts und das sah wirklich verdammt beeindruckend aus.

https://vimeo.com/248591160
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