Sunday, January 12, 2020

4th Time Recovered SpaceX 1st Stage from 3rd Starlink Launch Craned off Droneship onto Land After Hosing Clean: Photos

Up Close look at 4 landing legs and 9 Merlin 1D engines at base of recovered Starlink Falcon 9 1st stage craned off SpaceX recovery ship OCISLY around 3 PM EST Jan. 10, 2020 using Liebherr Mobile Harbor Crane - around a day after near sunset arrival atop OCISLY into Port Canaveral. Note: 9 Merlin 1D engines fully exposed.   From Jan. 6 SpaceX Starlink 2 launch. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com
10 January  2020

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Just about 22 hours after sailing back into Port Canaveral yesterday afternoon, Thursday, Jan. 9 the second quadruply launched & landed SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster was craned off the “Of Course I Still Love You” (OCISLY) droneship mid-afternoon Friday, Jan. 10 in a craning operation that utilized the new workhorse German-built Liebherr Mobile Harbor Crane – that only recently came into use on the prior Starlink booster return in November 2019 on the first quadruply recycled Falcon 9 booster.

Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/01/4th-time-recovered-spacex-1st-stage-from-3rd-starlink-launch-craned-off-droneship-onto-land-after-hosing-clean-photos/

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