Another Successful Falcon9 Launch for SpaceX – Video Replay
This morning, at 10:31 eastern, spectators across Central and Eastern Florida had the opportunity to see another perfect launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
This morning’s launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral on Florida’s Space Coast went off without a hitch as clear skies and light winds prevailed.
As with every SpaceX launch, the event was streamed live via multiple vantage points thanks to cameras on the ground, the recovery ships at sea, and several mounted on various components of the rocket and stages.
Watch a video replay of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch below:
Today’s launch was the 6th time that this Falcon 9 booster has carried a payload aloft and then safely landed on the drone recovery ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s last flight before today was in June 2020.
This unique ability to reuse both the rockets and the fairings repeatedly is allowing SpaceX to ‘crush the competition’ in terms of the cost of putting payloads into orbit.
Many liken it to the difference we would pay for an airline ticket if the airplane had to be thrown away after each flight.
In the video replay of today’s launch, you can see the launch and separation of the rocket from the second stage carrying the Starlink satellites (about 18 minutes after liftoff). Cameras on the rocket and the drone ship also provide great views of the re-entry and landing of Falcon 9.
Today’s launch put 58 more SpaceX’s Starlink satellites into orbit, and also carried 3 SkySat satellites for a customer.
About 12 minutes after lift-off, a rear facing camera provides a great view of deployment of the 3 SkySats, and then Starlinks about another 34 minutes later.
The next scheduled launch for SpaceX is later this month on the evening August 27 at 7:19pm Eastern.
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