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Old 25-06-2019, 06:26 PM
glend (Glen)
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy STP-2 Launch this afternoon

I watched the SpaceX STP-2 Launch this afternoon, and it's still playing out right now if you want to catch the deployment phase. Pretty complex mission, with 24 satellites to be deployed at three different altitudes, from low Earth orbit and medium orbit. Multiple second stage burns required. The two side boosters returned to the Cape landing perfectly. The centre core booster had to go farther down range than every before and try to get to the drone ship pad. It made the distance but just missed the pad and fell into the sea.
The video is on Utube now.

I note that apparently the ashes of 152 people were going up on this trip as well. I wonder how much that costs? How do you book for that?
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