At 1:18am (ET) on Tuesday, August 7, #SpaceX successfully launched the #Telkom4 #MerahPutih satellite atop a previously flown #Block5 #Falcon9 rocket. This was the first reuse of a Block5, the rocket that is designed to be reused many times.
At 12:45 am on September 10, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched the Telstar18 Vantage satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket launched from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and approximately 8 minutes later, the first stage of the rocket successfully landed atop a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Seen here is a 5-minute exposure captured from Satellite Beach, Florida. The break in the streak shows the Main Engine Cutoff (MECO), followed 12-secs later by the ignition of the second-stage engine. Also of note, over the course of the 5-minute exposure, the stars move around the North Star, creating streaks of their own, longer ones further away from the North Star.
"Solarization filter" At 3:46pm (ET) today (Thursday), #SpaceX successfully launched the #Eshail2 payload atop a previously flown #Falcon9 rocket. The first stage would later land atop the "Of Course I Still Love You," positioned 400-ish miles off-shore.
