Falcon Heavy Test Flight

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Strong rec codeulike · 2018-02 · on “Capturing Starman from 1M miles away”

You should watch the launch, its probably one of the most interesting engineering projects of the last few years. [this video]

Strong rec tpmx · 2020-05 · on “SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype fires rocket engine for first time”

I remember seeing it around or just after midnight when I was visiting a customer in Taipei. I had fallen asleep two hours earlier, but set a timer to wake up just for this historic event. Totally worth it. That was one the best executived live streams of all time: [this video]

Strong rec somenameforme · 2022-11 · on “Falcon Heavy Launch [video]”

It's hard to measure objectively but I feel I was dramatically more impressed seeing first Falcon Heavy come down than I was seeing the first successful (non-heavy) landing. I've shown a lot of people (who aren't otherwise into space) the original Falcon Heavy landing video: [this video] The most common response, by far, is: "Is that real?" It really is just that amazing. Even look at the YouTube comments. It's enough to make even the internet become a place of shared awe, wonder, and inspiration. Makes one wonder what the world would be like if we had media that focused more on things like this and less on things that divide and agitate people.

Strong rec somenameforme · 2023-10 · on “NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away”

Falcon Heavy has been launching commercial, government, and military payloads successfully for years now. [1] I'd strongly encourage checking out their first successful test launch of it, from 5 years ago. [2] Skip to about 29 minutes in for the money shot. Still gives me goose bumps! So let's compare the two! Falcon Heavy was developed with completely private funding, at a cost of ~$500 million. The prices of the launches are listed in Wiki. They start at $117 million, as NASA paid in 2023 to launch their Psyche craft. The SLS has been in development for more than a decade now, fully paid by the taxpayer, at a cost just about to break the $30 billion mark. The nominal cost per launch is sti

Strong rec somenameforme · 2025-01 · on “Starship Flight 7”

Just to link that: [this video] Such an unbelievable moment. And I also think an indicator of how much better society could be if we focused more on doing amazing things. The comments on YouTube are just filled with hope optimism and general awesomeness. FWIW that link goes straight to the moneyshot - it's always so much better if you watch it all the way through. It's an amazing broadcast.

Strong rec NitpickLawyer · 2026-04 · on “Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps”

> I think everyone forgot about early SpaceX product quality. This was 8 years ago and is one of the greatest stuff I've seen in space launches. The footage is so epic that it even got replicated in SciFi series! ... [this video] This was 9 years ago, first droneship landing - [LINK] And this is 18 years ago, their first Falcon1 launch - [LINK] More live video from the ascent than we got on Artemis2 for sure...

Cites tobijkl · 2018-02 · on “SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)”

If you look at the footage closely you see that they used the same footage for both boosters. Nevertheless, the landing was superb. edit: [this video]

Cites leetrout · 2018-02 · on “SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches”

They said in the broadcast they weren't but when it got close to the ground you could tell they were the same feed. [LINK] [this video]