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FH liftoff in ~80 minutes!
Hello All,
There is another countdown today (which, unlike Beresheet's attempted landing on the Moon, will hopefully have a successful conclusion!)--the live coverage of today's Falcon Heavy-Arabsat 6A launch is proceeding, with liftoff scheduled to occur in about 80 minutes (at 6:35 PM EDT), see: https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/04/...unch-wednesday/ . The video coverage hasn't begun yet, but text updates are already appearing--fueling of the Falcon Heavy with super-chilled LOX and RP-1 kerosene will begin in about 40 minutes.
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Watched the whole launch it was just awesome!
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"Everyday Astronaut" videoed it from five miles away, and (despite a few unwanted drop-outs), he got some incredible ascent and outboard booster return footage (the link is below)! He also reported that the three booster cores account for 90% of the Falcon Heavy vehicle's dry mass, so that is significant savings for SpaceX! Below is a quick account of his coverage: “Everyday Astronaut” recorded today’s Falcon Heavy launch from five miles away (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpX16SePpVA ), and he also discussed an unusual aspect of this flight. Arabsat 6A could actually have been injected into a GTO by a Falcon 9, but it flew aboard a Falcon Heavy instead for contract history (it was originally signed up for a FH ride), schedule (it had been waiting for its launch for a *long* time), and logistical & time-saving reasons (modifying it to ride on a Falcon 9 would have cost more money and time, and utilizing the Falcon Heavy’s ability to put it into a Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit will get Arabsat 6A to its assigned Clarke Belt slot sooner than could be done using a Falcon 9), and: All three of this Falcon Heavy’s standard Block 5 booster cores are now flight-proven, and--at least in the case of the outboard ones, if not all three--they will be used for the next Falcon Heavy flight, as the SpaceX hosts mentioned. (If the Russian IRDT inflatable Fregat upper stage [and test satellite] conical heat shield/parachute-substitute descent decelerator devices were adapted to bring down the second stage intact from orbit—and if the fairing halves were also recovered—the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy would become fully-reusable launch vehicles, something that NASA has only dreamed about—although nearly always in winged form—since the late 1960s through the early 1970s [although Douglas Aircraft’s Philip Bono always envisioned RLVs as wingless, rocket-braked vehicles].)
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Great follow up info here. Thank you for being on top of the tech side of things to!
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More good news
They recovered and will reuse the fairing halves, too!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...q83VzfETNeGJAvB
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