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stage ones that started pressures duis 15 seconds that is configured to light then nine eight seven six my record launching flight operations as you just saw Falcon 9 has successfully cleared the pad and is now on its ascent with a test spacecraft and it's bearing now coming up here shortly you're going to hear three big events happening in rapid succession the first is Miko that stands for main engine cutoff that is where all nine of the first agencies are going to shut down that's in preparation for the next step which is stage set for stage separation later stage one will separate from stage to stage one will make its way back down to the drone ship stage two will continue on with tests to its orbit and then you're going to hear second engine start that is the ignition of the second stage engine we go wait and as you just saw we had a successful stage separation and in successful ignition of that second stage engine as you heard stage one is transonic we're about ten seconds away from that landing landing burn note that the drone ship is situated approximately 300 kilometers off the coast of Florida and you can see that when e1 started let's see if we can catch it in the video we landed on of course I still love you this marks the 24th successful landing of a falcon 9 first stage we'll be getting acquisition of signal as we pass over a ground station here shortly and ideally we're on the screen and there we go and just under a minute here we'll be seeing the spacecraft separate from Falcon 9 that beautiful image of the earth behind us there it's one of the planets test is going to look at in its lifetime and as you can see there we have had successful separation of the test spacecraft and it's going on on its beautiful mission to look at thousands of planets outside of our solar system