Last night's launch from the Cape
I watched the missile lunch from Cape Canaveral last night at about 12:35 from our pool deck (snuck out of bed confinement), Perfectly clear night and really lit up the sky which is saying something because it's 85 miles South of me, looked like it was just down the street.
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I stayed up to watch live launch, it helped that it was not long after round 2 of the Houston Rodeo.
The recovery of the rocket blows my mind every time I get to watch one, this was the first night launch and recovery I’ve gotten to see. Simply amazing.
Mule
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There's another one set for later today from California, carrying more Starlink birds up. This will be the 12th flight of this booster.
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Due to poor weather in the recovery zone, they have slipped this launch until Friday at 10:38 am Pacific. Stay tuned...
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Night launches are awesome
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Was going to work a few months ago. Saw a launch go up the east coast, Space EX I think it was, about 6am.
Unnerving to say the least since I had no clue what it was.
Note, I was in the hills of WNC about 300 miles away.
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Butchdog3: 30327278559387/comments/30327281278491
Was going to work a few months ago. Saw a launch go up the east coast, Space EX I think it was, about 6am.
Unnerving to say the least since I had no clue what it was.
Note, I was in the hills of WNC about 300 miles away.
Whoa, I bet that was a bit unnerving
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To say the least. I would have thought asteroid but it was traveling upwards. I could see the fanned out flames from the boosters. I heard about it on the news some time later that it was Space X.
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Dawn or dusk launches can produce amazing sights like the "space squid". Watch this short vid for an example. (This one was from California, but Florida launches can do the same thing.)
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I watched the Apollo 11 launch from 14 miles away. It was a daytime launch and it was spectacular!
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RR the squid is right on.
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I was at the visitor center for the last Titan launch from Canaveral. A long distance away, but you could feel the pressure wave as the sound rolled in.
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I remember as a kid they told us we went to the moon
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Don McManus: 30327278559387/comments/30327328845979
I was at the visitor center for the last Titan launch from Canaveral. A long distance away, but you could feel the pressure wave as the sound rolled in.
Can you imagine how loud the sound would be if they didn’t flood the launch pad with water
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They flood the launch pad with water to cut down on the noise?
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In fact, if they didn't flood the pad, the sound alone can destroy the rocket. The fence around the Saturn/Shuttle/Falcon pad at KSC is 1,000 feet from the rocket. It has never been officially revealed, but that's the "dead zone." Anything that happens to be inside that fence at launch is probably dead from the sound.
The Saturn V produced 7.5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, and the Shuttle and Falcon heavy aren't far behind. I can vouch that 3.5 MILES away, the sound thumps your insides like a drum. It actually moves the ground - recorded as a minor quake.
I cannot begin to imagine what the SpaceX Starship will be like when it launches later this month from Texas. It will produce 18 million pounds of thrust. EIGHTEEN MILLION.
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allen griggs: 30327278559387/comments/30327330263707
They flood the launch pad with water to cut down on the noise?
Heat and noise
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