Nice job, Tony!Good of you to give Steven the night off, as it's Christmas in Adelaide in 10 minutes.Merry Christmas to all, and Congrats to SpaceX.--Pete
I called it.I knew the stubby M-Vac nozzle would be used for this mission.
LandedThat's the 256 landing of an orbital stage booster.
F9/SARah-2: LIFTOFF! At 8:11am EST (1311 UTC)
Liftoff!
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 4
Falcon 9 launches the @ohb_se SARah-2 mission from California
F9/SARah-2: This will be the 96th F9 launch of '23 and the 284th single-stick F9 flight overall; booster B1075 is making its 8th flight; a successful return-to-launch-site landing would be SpaceX's 15th at Vandenberg and its 256th overall
The whole thing looked like a woodcut of a great comet in the 17th century.