SpaceX F9 : Starlink v1.0 L16 : KSC LC-39A : 20 Jan 2021 (1302 UTC)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1353458964445483012

SpaceX (you may have heard about them by now, heh) saving boosters from a watery grave.

Jan 20:
Launch a Falcon 9.
Land a Falcon 9.

Jan 24
Launch a Falcon 9.
Land a Falcon 9.
Falcon 9 from Jan 20 back to Port Canaveral.

NSF Fleetcam @RustysInThePort ➡️[

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/therealjonvh/status/1353500801960996869

Encore! Congratulations #SpaceX for your first #Falcon9 making it back to Port Canaveral from it's 8th launch and landing from the 17th #Starlink Mission!

📷: me for @gospacelaunch

https://twitter.com/jtgenter/status/1353499508664107015

Welcome home B1051! This booster has successfully flown 8 different missions to space and has safely landed each time!

There was quite a crowd out at the Jetty Park and Port Canaveral to great this record-smashing #SpaceX booster.

Thanks to @SpaceXFleet for tracking the return!

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacecoast_stve/status/1353497119810838529

We have a new champion!

B1051 has now left Earth and returned home a whopping 8 times - more than any other #Falcon9 booster! Even with the landing conditions being somewhat dicey, or as SpaceX put it, "Envelope expanding," B1051 pulled it off like a pro.

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1353484368841478144

Birds and a booster at dinner time. B1051-8 has returned to Port Canaveral onboard JRTI as diners looked on and pelicans came back with their catches.
#SpaceX #SpaceXFleet

[Jansen]

Cap is attached in preparation for movement off ASDS.

[Jansen]

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1353745918038835200

Sister ships GO Ms. Tree and GO Ms. Chief have returned from the Transporter-1 fairing recovery zone with scooped halves. It appears the Starlink fairings were not recoverable

[Jansen]

B1051 is now horizontal

[Jansen]

Capped in preparation for road transport

[FutureSpaceTourist]

From earlier:

twitter.com/kspaceacademy/status/1353924127757905923

SpaceX crews at Port Canaveral are burning the midnight... carbon-neutral methane...? Cranes are in position, and it looks like they may lift to dock and go horizontal shortly.

Yeah, NSF is LIVE. We're leaving this one to the robots 😅
youtube.com/watch?v=gnt2wZ…

https://twitter.com/kspaceacademy/status/1353940928243916801

Was not kidding...

[Jansen]

Booster moving out

[CorvusCorax]

I'm not 100% sure, but this footage seems to be from the L16 launch

https://twitter.com/r2x0t/status/1370030702633312259

if you compare RVAC appearances, there's subtle differences between each of them. Of course some of these (especially foil wrinkles) change as the engine is breathing, and SpaceX stream seems to show a different view angle.  But after comparing the last 8 SpaceX launch webcast, this is the best fit. - it's definitely not from L20 or L21 - the RVACs look different, nor from any other launches after L16.

[Steven Pietrobon]

Here's the view inside the tank, showing floating balls of LOX.

[CorvusCorax]

Here's the view inside the tank, showing floating balls of LOX.

Mesmerizing like a lava-lamp. I could watch these tank contents in zero-g for hours. Almost as good as Texas-tank-watching

Maybe we should code a screensaver "F9S2 LOX tank fluid rendering simulator"