Saturday, February 22, 2020

Beautiful Blastoff SpaceX Falcon 9 with 5th Batch Starlink Broadband Satellites, Misses Booster Landing: Photos


Recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off on 5th Starlink mission from  Space Launch Complex-40 at 10:05 a.m. ET on 17 Feb 2020 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida – as seen in this view from the Max Brewer Bridge along the Indian River Lagoon with exhaust flames reflecting in the water in between 2 boats with top half of NASA’s VAB bedecked in fog. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com
17 February 2020

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM


CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Under foggy skies that enveloped the launch pad in the hours leading up to launch and for a time threatened to postpone liftoff, and after days of delays due to poor weather and technical problems with the SpaceX rocket, a quadruple recycled Falcon 9 booster blasted off successfully into a  mix of sun and low clouds-morning Monday morning Feb. 17 with the next batch of  Starlink broadband internet satellites from the Florida Space Coast. 

Read the entire story at Space UpClose:

https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/02/beautiful-blastoff-spacex-falcon-9-with-5th-batch-starlink-broadband-satellites-photos/

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