There is another video further up where the speed is very apparent.

Like lawn darts with last minute retro rockets!

@NwG

Wow that was amazing, @SpaceX #FalconHeavy pic.twitter.com/Y0ozNxUtun

Forger Stucky  (@Stuck4ger) November 1, 2022

That is it.   The second one seemed to show it better.  You need to see the booster before or soon after the landing burn starts to get the full effect.

Mission:  Falcon 9, Galaxy 31 and 32

1) Background info: Source

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 commercial communications satellites for Intelsat. Built by Maxar, Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 will be positioned in geostationary orbit to provide C-band video and television broadcast services in the United States. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will be expended on this mission."

2) Launch window:    11:06 AM - 1:06 PM EST (12 November 2022)

3) Launch Site:   SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

4) Launch direction:  East

5) Webcast viewing options:

a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 15 minutes before liftoff)

b.  You Tube



6)  Observation comments:    None

7) Launch preparations:

a.  Boats heading out.


Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.   Thanks to some tactical hurricane-dodging, Bob is taking the very scenic route out to the Galaxy 31 & 32 fairing recovery LZ


Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.     Bob and Doug delivered both sets of fairing halves from Hotbird-13G and USSF-44 respectively to Port Canaveral over the weekend.

Both ships have now departed the area to avoid Hurricane Nicole. Bob is near Cuba and Doug near Fort Lauderdale.

b.   Satellites:


Galaxy 31 (left) and Galaxy 32 (right) are shown here at Maxar’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California, ahead of shipment to launch base.


The Galaxy 31 (bottom) and Galaxy 32 (top) satellites stacked together at Cape Canaveral inside SpaceX’s payload processing facility. Credit: Intelsat


Credit:   https://www.intelsat.com/launches/galaxy-31-and-galaxy-32/

c.  Ready for launch:  


SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral awaiting liftoff with Intelsat’s Galaxy 31 and 32 communications satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage will be expended on this mission, and is flying without landing legs or grid fins. Credit: Steven Young / Spaceflight Now

d.  Navigation warning:

8) First stage return/ocean recovery/disposal:  Disposal in the ocean

9) Launch to deployment events/timeline:      

Hours:Minutes:Seconds after lift-off.  Times approximate.  

00:02:43   1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:46   1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:53   2nd stage engine starts (SES-1)
00:03:32   Fairing deployment
00:08:05   2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
00:26:50   2nd stage engine restarts (SES-2)
00:28:00   2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
00:33:31   Galaxy 32 deploys
00:38:41   Galaxy 31 deploys

10)  Orbit destination:  Supersynchronous transfer orbit with satellite performing maneuvers to reach geosynchronous orbit.  Going supersynchronous (higher that geosynchronous altitude) means that the satellites will use less fuel to make the required inclination reduction.

I know I'm way late to this conversation, but...

There's a wide variety of reasons that SpaceX is unlikely to typically recover the center core of the Falcon Heavy, but the biggest one is that in fully reusable configuration, with both side boosters RTLS and the center core landing on the barge, FH's capability isn't that much different from a fully expendable Falcon 9. And that FH center core is screaming in, and well downrange, so your chance of landing it and getting it back home in one piece is lower than normal. So for those missions, it's likely SpaceX is going to just throw away an old F9.

And you get much bigger than that; then your two barges will be downrange catching side boosters, leaving you nothing to catch the (moving even faster) center core with anyway.

Teams at the Cape are preparing for Tropical Storm Nicole and are now targeting no earlier than Saturday, November 12 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Intelsat G-31/G-32 mission to orbit from SLC-40

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 7, 2022

The vehicle and payload are secure in the hangar and will remain there through the duration of the storm

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 7, 2022

The clean up at Port Canaveral is going well and everybody is looking forward to the launch today, weather looks good !

The LabPadre cam at Gators went down Thursday morning just before 4 a.m., it has no power.
Went over there yesterday and the manager let me take a look and there is no power getting to it, or anything associated with it such as the monitor, PC, wifi transmitter etc. It's all plugged in to a power bar and the power bar is not getting power. Something to do with GFCI, they ALL tripped at Gators and they scrambling to get everything going since yesterday was a big day for them as they honor Veterans Day by offering free meals to Vets. Gator's is a big place too !
The sign out front is a gonner.

Greg Scott is on vacation and will be back tomorrow and hopefully we can get it sorted out. (plus he owes me a beer)

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Pretty sure the X-37B came in this morning too.
Something got me up just after 5 this morning, thought it was another tree coming down with a thump.

yes, that's what I've been seeing reports of.

uhmm something landing?? #X37B #OTV6 pic.twitter.com/eFre3j0Xze

DutchSpace  (@DutchSpace) November 12, 2022

Based on restricted airspace at the Kennedy Space Centre and reported sonic booms, it looks like the X-37B OTV-6 spaceplane returned to Earth after spending a record-breaking 908 days in orbit.

(Photo from previous mission) pic.twitter.com/AzorJtvcGh

— Aerospace Intelligence (@space_osint) November 12, 2022

After 908 days in orbit, its longest mission to date, the Space Force space plane may have secretly landed in Florida this morning. No confirmation yet from the military. https://t.co/2hQcI0bniV

Eric Berger  (@SciGuySpace) November 12, 2022

They so sneaky those guys. Everything was quiet and no lights on when I drove by last night.

I just thought the boom was another random transformer blowing up when I was walking the dog this morning.

Ring camera from somewhere in the Orlando area. Same video was on the news this morning but the sound was better.
Idiots on Fox35 said that it was a SpaceX landing.

Webcast is starting.

5 minutes. Low scattered cloud, might be able to see some of it from home.

Another successful launch.   It would neat to see video from the first stage during re-entry.

I didn’t realize Northrop Grumman had booked some rides for the NG-20 through NG-22 Cygnus resupply missions.

“Northrop Grumman had two engine sets and two Antares first stage boosters in the United States when Russian invaded Ukraine in February, enough to cover the company’s needs for the NG-18 and NG-19 missions. After the launch of NG-19 on the final Antares 230+ rocket, currently scheduled for March, Northrop Grumman will launch the next three Cygnus cargo missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral in 2023 and 2024.

Falcon 9 rockets already launch SpaceX’s own resupply missions to the space station with the Dragon spacecraft. Unlike the Dragon, the Cygnus supply ships will launch covered by the Falcon 9’s payload fairing. Eberly said in August that Northrop Grumman booked the NG-20, NG-21, and NG-22 launches with SpaceX using the company’s own internal funding.”

https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/11/07/northrop-grummans-s-s-sally-ride-cargo-ship-launches-on-flight-to-international-space-station/

We are suppose to be T-28 hours from SLS launching....what is the over/under on it being scrubbed again?

we have other threads for Starship and Artemis.

Looking forward to Falcon-Cygnus. I like to see old space and new space working together. Cygnus is important for a bunch of reasons. One of which is that if the Russians drop out of the ISS then Cygnus will be the best way to reboost the station in the absence of some new piece of SpaceX equipment. Or Starliner which simply cannot be counted on.

Not that N-G has many other options but to work with SpaceX. It's not like they can get more Russian engines or launch on an Atlas.

There's talk that Firefly Aerospace will probably be bought out by N-G. I'm pretty sure it's going to be awhile until they have a product reliable enough to service a space station.

Mission:  Starlink 2-4

1) Background info: Source

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean."

2) Launch window:    8:25 PM PDT (18 November 2022).  Delayed for unknown period

3) Launch Site:   SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

4) Launch direction:  South

5) Webcast viewing options:

a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 5 minutes before liftoff)

b.  You Tube



6)  Observation comments:  


7) Launch preparations:

a.  Boats heading out.


Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.     Departure! OCISLY droneship is outbound for Starlink 2-4 from VSFB.

b.  Ready for launch.

c.  Navigation warning:



8) First stage return/ocean recovery/disposal:  Drone ship OCISLY recovery

9) Launch to deployment events/timeline:      

Hours:Minutes:Seconds after lift-off.  Times approximate.  

00:02:27   1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:31   1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:37   2nd stage engine starts (SES-1)
00:03:22   Fairing deployment
00:06:46  1st stage entry burn start
00:07:04  1st stage entry burn complete
00:08:23  1st stage landing burn start
00:08:42  2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1)
00:08:45  1st stage landing
00:29:03  Starlink satellites deploy

10) Orbit destination:   Starlink Shell 2; 570 km circular 70° low-Earth Orbit (LEO), initial orbit of 333 km x 217 km at 70.00°

Standing down from tomorrow's launch of Starlink to take a closer look at data from static fire; will announce a new target launch date once confirmed

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 18, 2022

SpaceX finally confirms today on the CRS-26 pre-launch news conference that they'll build a fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft.

— Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) (@Alexphysics13) November 18, 2022

Targeting Tuesday, November 22 at 3:54 p.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 26th commercial resupply mission to the @space_station ? https://t.co/oXa4P2AWg7

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 18, 2022

Mission:  Falcon 9, CRS-26

1) Background info: Source

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 26th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA."

Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station on Sunday, November 27 at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET (12:30 UTC).

2) Launch window:    2:20 PM EST  (26 November 2022).

3) Launch Site:   SLC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

4) Launch direction:  Northeast

5) Webcast viewing options:

a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 25 minutes before liftoff)

b.  You Tube:



6)  Observation comments:    None.

7) Launch preparations:

a.  Boats heading out.

[tweet] https://twitter.com/i/status/1594314035356467200[/tweet]
https://twitter.com/i/status/1594314035356467200
Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.    Departure! Just Read the Instructions droneship is outbound to support the CRS-26 mission. Bob is towing.

http://nsf.live/spacecoast

b.  Ready for launch.  


A pair of Falcon 9s at SLC-40 (left) and LC-39A (right) before their respective launch attempts on Nov.22. Credit: Ben Cooper.    Left is Eutelsat 10B...right is CRS-26.


SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon capsule on pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX

c.  Navigation warning:



8) First stage return/ocean recovery/disposal:  Drone ship recovery on JRTI.

9) Launch to deployment events/timeline:      

Hours:Minutes:Seconds after lift-off.  Times approximate.  

00:02:27   1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:30   1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:38   2nd stage engine starts (SES-1)
00:02:42   1st stage boostback burn begins
00:03:15   1st stage boostback burn complete
00:05:45   1st stage entry burn begins
00:05:59   2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1)
00:07:06   1st stage landing burn begins
00:07:33   1st stage landing
00:08:37   Dragon separates from 2nd stage
00:11:49   Dragon nosecone open sequence begins

10)  Orbit destination:   ISS orbit at 51 degree inclination.    118 miles by 130 miles (190 kilometers by 210 kilometers), 51.6 degrees inclination.

Mission:  Falcon 9, EUTELSAT-10B

1) Background info: Source

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Eutelsat 10B communications satellite for Eutelsat. Based on the Spacebus Neo platform built by Thales Alenia Space, Eutelsat 10B will provide maritime and in-flight broadband, data, and video connectivity to customers in the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will be expended. "  

2) Launch window:    9:57 PM EST  (21 November 2022).

3) Launch Site:   SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

4) Launch direction:  East

5) Webcast viewing options:

a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 15 minutes before liftoff)

b.  You Tube



6)  Observation comments:    None.

7) Launch preparations:

a.  Boats heading out.


Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.    Doug departed Port Canaveral overnight and is heading downrange to recover the fairing for the Eutelsat-10B mission

b.  Ready for launch.  


A pair of Falcon 9s at SLC-40 (left) and LC-39A (right) before their respective launch attempts on Nov.22. Credit: Ben Cooper.  Left is Eutelsat 10B...right is CRS-26.

c.  Navigation warning:

d.  Satellite on-orbit:


Eutelsat 10B satellite. Photo: Thales Alenia Space


8) First stage return/ocean recovery/disposal:  The booster will be expended (disposal in the ocean)

9) Launch to deployment events/timeline:      

Hours:Minutes:Seconds after lift-off.  Times approximate.  

00:02:43  1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:47  1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:54  2nd stage engine starts (SES-1)
00:03:36  Fairing deployment
00:08:05  2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
00:26:18  2nd stage engine restarts (SES-2)
00:27:27  2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
00:35:28  Eutelsat 10B deploys

10)  Orbit destination: The Falcon 9 second stage will deploy the payload into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.   "The target apogee for the Eutelsat 10B mission at spacecraft deployment will be above 37,000 miles, or about 60,000 kilometers, according to Pascal Homsy, Eutelsat’s chief technical officer."

Rolled 24 hours.

Standing down from tonight’s launch of the Eutelsat 10B mission to allow for additional pre-flight checkouts; now targeting tomorrow, November 22 at 9:57 p.m. ET for liftoff. Weather is currently 20% favorable

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 22, 2022

"But there’s just a 10% chance of good weather at Kennedy Space Center for an instantaneous launch opportunity at 3:54:06 p.m. EST (2054:06 GMT)."

Source

Weather scrub.

Sounds like the smart thing to do.  Maybe a little too much explaining.

Looks like this one may go

Go for launch

My son was watching with me and he asked:  "If Elon succeeds in colonizing Mars, do you think Santa can get there to deliver presents?"

Well shit.... I missed it.

I watched it on a phone in bed.   Went to sleep after satellite deployment.

less than 2 minutes

Launched.

nailed it

They do make it look EZ.

The drone ship landings never get old

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship during its rendezvous with the International Space Station on Sunday. Credit: NASA TV

Targeting Wednesday, November 30 at 3:39 a.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 – the first privately-led Japanese mission to land on the lunar surface ? https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK pic.twitter.com/lETh1mvNfo

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 28, 2022

Falcon 9’s first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida pic.twitter.com/OZ4VD4nqO0

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 28, 2022

Pretty package.

I do prefer return to launch site landings. They just seem easier.

Mission:  Falcon 9, ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1

1) Background info: Source

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the first commercial lunar lander for ispace, a Japan-based company that competed for the Google Lunar XPRIZE and is now developing a series of robotic lunar landers. The first lunar lander, called ispace Mission 1, was assembled in partnership with ArianeGroup and carries a package of international and commercial payloads, including two small lunar rovers from the United Arab Emirates and Japan. The mission will target a landing in the Lacus Somniorum region of the moon. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight CubeSat will be a rideshare payload on this launch. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station."

2) Launch window:    2:38 AM EST (11 December 2022)

3) Launch Site:   SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

4) Launch direction:  East

5) Webcast viewing options:

a. SpaceX webcast (Starts about 15 minutes before liftoff)

b.  You Tube




6)  Observation comments:    Night time launch which improves visibility for distant observers.  I am assuming that there will be a first stage boost back burn which may require binoculars to see since the engine is facing mostly away from land.   The first stage re-entry burn should be visible naked eye.  The re-entry burn will be roughly 70 degrees above the horizon from the launch area.

If you are in the West Palm Beach area I would look north to north-northeast about 45 - 60 degrees above the horizon for the re-entry burn.  Obviously scan some outside that area but you know the time of the burn so it should be easy to find.

From the Jacksonville area I would look to the southeast to south-southeast about 45- 60 degrees above the horizon.

For others in Florida, look at the warning map in Paragraph 7d.   See the green circles close to the launch site?  Consider the burn 60 kilometers above the easternmost green circles and that will give you an azimuth.  The further away from the launch site you are the lower it will be.  If you can see MECO, the re-entry burn should be at that elevation (degrees above horizon) or higher since it is closer to land.

7) Launch preparations:

a.  Boats heading out:


Gav Cornwell@SpaceOffshore.    Doug departed Port Canaveral before dawn today to recovery the fairing for the upcoming HAKUTO-R mission.  This was for the original launch date.

b.  Satellite:

1)  See photo in post #43 above

2)  

Gav Cornwell Retweeted    Ben Cooper@LaunchPhoto.    The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander is encapsulated inside the payload fairing of the Falcon 9 rocket that will take it into space early Wednesday.

3)  

The Hakuto-R M1 lunar lander (Credit: ispace)

4)

Lunar Flashlight cubesat

c.  Ready for launch:  


Credit: SpaceX

d.  Navigation warning:


Gav Cornwell Retweeted  Raul@Raul74Cz.    Launch Hazard Areas for #ispace M1 mission from CCSFS SLC-40, valid for NET 30 Nov 08:39 UTC, alternatively 01 to 05 Dec based on issued NOTMAR/NOTAM. LZ-2 landing for booster 1073.5. Estimated fairing recovery position approximately 546km downrange.

8) First stage return/ocean recovery/disposal:  Return to Landing Zone 2

9) Launch to deployment events/timeline:      

Hours:Minutes:Seconds after lift-off.  Times approximate.  

00:02:13 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:17 1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:24 2nd stage engine starts
00:02:29 Boostback burn start
00:03:06 Fairing deployment
00:03:26 Boostback burn complete
00:06:33 1st stage entry burn start
00:06:53 1st stage entry burn complete
00:07:44 1st stage landing burn start
00:07:52 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-1)
00:08:16 1st stage landing
00:40:02 2nd stage engine starts (SES-2)
00:40:58 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
00:46:59 ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 deploys
00:53:09 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight deploys

10)  Orbit destination:  To the moon!    Low-energy lunar transfer orbit

The primary landing site for this mission will be the Atlas crater, located in the northeast part of the Moon. The lunar landing is expected to occur in April 2023.


The Hakuto-R mission outline (Credit: ispace)

I didnt realize Falcon 9 had the ability to take something to the moon. I understand its a function of the weight but still...pretty neat

They didn't realize that it could send payloads to the moon when they were designing the thing.

Part of the reason why there have been so few Falcon Heavy launches. F9 has proven to be such a powerful and effective design that FH capabilities simply are not needed.

The final thrust of the Merlin d is like twice the thrust of the c model.

I think it's an excellent statement on the effectiveness of a clean sheet design and/or not counting on leftover Russian components.

There might be an alternate timeline where the Russians took Elon a bit more seriously and sold him some of their stuff. In that timeline, SpaceX probably doesn't launch any more often with any more fanfare than Northrop-Grumman.

Standing down from launch of ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 1 to allow for additional pre-flight checkouts; now targeting Thursday, December 1 at 3:37 a.m. ET for liftoff

SpaceX  (@SpaceX) November 30, 2022