Author Topic: SpaceX FH - STP-2 - LC-39A - June 25, 2019 - 02:30 EDT - UPDATES (Read 145365 times)

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #200 on:** 06/25/2019 08:35 am »

MVAC engine chill.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #201 on:** 06/25/2019 08:36 am »

LOX vapour coming out of the engine.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #202 on:** 06/25/2019 08:37 am »

One minute to third ignition.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #203 on:** 06/25/2019 08:39 am »

Third ignition and cutoff. Nominal orbit insertion.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #204 on:** 06/25/2019 08:41 am »

T+2 hour and 10 minutes. Coming back at T+3 hours and 27 minutes for the fourth ignition, which is for 36 seconds.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #205 on:** 06/25/2019 08:44 am »

Lots of solid oxygen (SOX) on the outlet.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #206 on:** 06/25/2019 08:45 am »

AOS HPK.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #207 on:** 06/25/2019 08:46 am »

SOX on the other side of the engine.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #208 on:** 06/25/2019 08:53 am »

AOS Mauritius. SOX has come free and is floating away.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #209 on:** 06/25/2019 08:54 am »

SOX is also gone on other side of engine.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #210 on:** 06/25/2019 09:01 am »

T+2 hours 30 minutes. Heading to apogee. About 4,000 more km to go in altitude.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #211 on:** 06/25/2019 09:10 am »

Photo cut off by embedding on this page - if you click through to the tweet still a great shot:

https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/1143436485502427137

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Hell yeah. I tried a long exposure of BECO, booster sep & boostback but cut off the bottom; Nailed the exposure settings, though.

Always learning. Important to share the ‘fails’ as it makes the successes that much sweeter! #FalconHeavy
📸hi-res/settings: http://bit.ly/stp-2