Thursday, February 20, 2020

Despite Hard Droneship Landing SpaceX Retracts All 4 Recycled Falcon 9 Starlink Landing Legs, Lowered Horizontal for Cape Transport: Photos


Triply launched/recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage is tilted and lowered horizontally by two cranes and crews working together around 10 AM EST Feb 4, 2020, three days after arriving vertical atop OCISLY droneship into Port Canaveral, FL on Feb 1. From Starlink 3 launch Jan. 29 from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com
5 February 2020

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

PORT CANAVERAL, FL –  Despite a hard landing on the OCISLY droneship minutes after last weeks Starlink mission blastoff on Jan. 29, SpaceX workers were able to successfully retract all four of the recycled Falcon 9 landing legs without too much hardship in Port Canaveral on Monday, Feb. 3 although they were significantly deflected at touchdown – as seen in the firms live video feed.

Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/02/despite-hard-droneship-landing-spacex-retracts-all-4-recycled-falcon-9-starlink-landing-legs-lowered-horizontal-for-cape-transport-photos/

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