SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches Starlink satellites

Hello everyone. My name is Jesse Anderson. I am the *** production and engineering manager here at SpaceX and will be your host for SpaceX’s 59th launch in 2022, our 197th mission. All teams are currently not tracking issues with the vehicles or spacecraft, whether are in range, both green for launch and we are proceeding with T zero at 4:32 p.m. yesterday’s mission and liftoff just 4.5 minutes from now, we’re ready for transporter erector retraction and what you’ll see happen first is the clamp arms just below the fairing begin to open and a once they are fully open the transport director or that structure right next to the vehicle will start to retract away from the vehicle and there you can see on your screen that those clamp arms are now opening and once they are fully open the T and they begin to retract The clamp arms are fully open and you can now see the ear, what here may be called the strong back, retract away from the vehicle to unlock. We just heard *** call full load of the stage one locks, which concludes the propellant load on the first stage. Loading of the locks will conclude in the second stage at the T -2 minute mark. Once finished, that will be the Falcon 9 fully loaded with propellant. You may see some liquid oxygen coming out. Once it comes into contact with warm, humid ambient air, it condenses the air around it. That’s why you see those white clouds. They are almost like a *** glass of cold water forming condensation they are coming to the conclusion of the liquid oxygen charge in the second stage The locks on page two seem complete AND there is a call just to confirm that the liquid oxygen charge of the second stage is now complete. Falcon nine is now fully loaded with £1 million pounds of fuel and liquid oxygen. Yes, launch closures. Now the booster you see on your screen is flying *** today, breaking a record for the fifteenth time. Previously, he supported the crew demonstration two years on CRS 21 Transporter one and three and nine previous Starlink missions. Reusability allows SpaceX to re-fly the most expensive parts of the rocket, which in turn lowers the cost of access to space. Commissioning And Falcon 9 is now in commissioning. The vehicle will be scheduled to land on our unmanned ship. Just read the instructions today and there you can see that on your screen and now we’re waiting for the final decision from the release director. And there it is with all the systems ready to go. The Falcon nine is ready for takeoff with our Starling T payload -30 seconds, 15 seconds t minus 10 engines 987654321 at full power and take off via 4 37 go 1000 go start. Yes, Falcon is launching down with the amazing sights we’ve been seeing. You can see that Falcon 9 has lifted off from platform 39 *** taking our payload of starlings into space. We are revving the engines in preparation for Max Q. Max Q is the supersonic max Q is the largest structural load the vehicle will see on the rise. Good Q. There’s this call that we’ve gone through maX Q. Next, we have four events going on. That will be the separation of the MIKO SCS stage one and then the deployment of the fairing. Miko has the main engine cut out and that’s where all nine of those engines you see right now fired up in the first stage. Those will go out and help slow down the stage. In preparation for the separation of stages. It will be then when the first stage separates from the second stage. The first stage will return to Earth and land on our drone. Just read the instructions today and the second stage will continue with SCS one or second stage one engine start, that’s where we fire up that rear engine m on the second stage and soon after we’ll deploy the fairing halves until the trajectory looks nominal and we’re getting to those few events. Only *** a few seconds. Talk loud. Stage separation confirmed. Thank you bearing separation confirmed as you may have seen we had Miko SCS one stage separation the M rear engine on the screen on the right lit up and we had the fairing rollout. The fairing halves will return to the dirt and we will attempt to recover them with our doug recovery canister today. On the left screen, you can see the first stage and see that the first stage grid fins have the first stage grid fins displayed bermuda signal acquisition. Both vehicles continue on nominal trajectories and a great call. Both vehicles look nominal again. The first stage is returning to Earth, while the second stage still has Starling’s payload attached, transmitting it to its destination orbit. Next up for the first stage is the driveway burn. That input ignition will be where three of the nine M one D engines are turned back on in the vehicle. This helps slow the stage down as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. After the entry ignition there will be a final ignition that will be the landing ignition in the first stage. It’s just a single engine, the mid-engine E nine that helps slow down the stage just before touchdown for landing. Each of our M1D engines have between 100 and 90,000 lbs of thrust at sea level and this is enough thrust to help slow the stage just in time to land. Now, the driveway burn I mentioned is less than two minutes into the first stage. But if you look at the screen on your right hand, we have an amazing view there, an amazing view with the earth in the background and the sun in the background. There, on your left hand screen, is a *** view of the first stage. Again, the flaps on the rack are deployed, this helps to steer the vehicle as it returns to its landing zone. There are four hypersonic grid fins just between the inner stage and the top of the first stage vehicle and they help guide the vehicle to the landing zone. You can also see some bursts of nitrogen gas that help with attitude control on the first stage and we’re only 30 seconds away from the first stage entry burn. Stage one FTS has saved the start of the stage one entry mark. As you can see, the motors have been turned back on in the first stage, Hone N 1 has been turned off, and with that, the motors have been turned off, which concludes that the input burn includes the input burn in the first stage. Today’s mission mark. SpaceX is the 197th overall launch and, as mentioned above, the 15th flight for this first-stage booster, having previously launched 14 missions and breaking a *** new flight record for, for flight-tested boosters. About 45 seconds from the landing ignition starting on the first stage as a reminder ***. Starlink is a *** satellite internet constellation designed and manufactured by SpaceX to provide high-speed, low-latency internet to people living in remote and rural locations around the world. Stage one Landing Burn And there you can see that the engine has started. Let’s see how the Falcon nine lands, just read the instructions. Stage One Landing Confirmed And there you can see that Falcon 9 has touched down for its 15th landing for this booster. This marks our 58th landing this year, the 158th total landing of an orbital-class rocket. We also hear *** call a psycho that is second engine out one and hear *** good orbit confirmation. And there you can see that the impact engine has And stage two is now taking 54 Starling satellites into low earth orbit. Thanks for joining us today.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches Starlink satellites

Updated: 4:58 pm EST Dec 17, 2022

SpaceX delivered 54 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit with a Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon. The Falcon 9 rocket launched at 4:32 p.m. from Launch Complex 39A at KSC. Today’s launch made this Falcon 9 first stage booster rocket the record holder with 15 total launches. SpaceX successfully performed the first leg on the Just Read the Instructions drone in the Atlantic about 9 minutes after liftoff. This release closely followed two successful Falcon 9 launches in recent days. SpaceX launched communication satellites for the SES 03b mPower network from KSC late Friday and launched NASA’s SWOT mission to study Earth’s waters early Friday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch can be seen above.

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SpaceX delivered 54 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit with a Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched at 4:32 p.m. from Launch Complex 39A at KSC. Today’s launch made this Falcon 9 first stage booster rocket the record holder with 15 total launches. SpaceX successfully the first stage in the unmanned spacecraft Just read the instructions in the Atlantic about 9 minutes after takeoff.

This release closely followed two successful Falcon 9 launches in recent days. SpaceX launched communication satellites for the SES 03b mPower network from KSC late Friday and launched NASA’s SWOT mission to study Earth’s waters early Friday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The launch can be seen above.