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Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test flight

2018-02-06
and when da-jin chill is complete he had to drain for long Stage two you basically t-minus 30 seconds launch director our countdown 1 SpaceX heavy you go for launch Falcon Heavy is configured for flight in -15 stand by for terminal count and nine eight subbu sir - six here we are with a cheery space on their chest way building on a history of certain father next killer you heard the call-out vehicle is supersonic side boosters are now throttling back up their past max cure the period of maximum loads on the vehicle next up we'll be waiting for the side boosters to begin to throttle down prior to booster engine cutoff at separation two and a half minutes into flight CNC trajectory looks good on the heavy reports show that the m1b engine performance is nominal individual has begun slide boosters have began to throttle down in preparation for the upcoming shutdown in ten seconds major event coming up side mounted separation inside shutdown side boosters the tool a mysterious box successful separation we're coming up on c4 Loosli they don't recognition visiting going students of decision they start up centipoid Assad engines on pilot also knew good sorry sir reduce 7:44 shut up Wow Wow did you guys see that that was awesome that's the only thing I can man recapping all the great things that you just saw there a successful liftoff from the pad successful stage separation but before that successful booster separation you can see stage 1 the tube side boosters parting that you can see the center core and you can see impact lit up oh my gosh then the beautiful shots of star man chilling in the Tesla Roadster absolutely incredible on your screen at the moment you've got a few things happening on the upper right you've got em back d continuing it's burn on the upper left you have the central core headed back towards the autonomous spaceport drone ship and in the two bottom screens you've got the side boosters headed back towards Cape Canaveral Air Force Station landing zones 1 & 2 the next step coming up for these side boosters and the center booster is the re-entry burn that's going to slow it down from or slow all the boosters down from way faster than the speed of sound to just faster than the speed of sound in order to reduce some of those aerodynamic forces and heating that occurs when you're moving that quickly through the atmosphere and as you can see on your screen boosters at community so the core to central core and the upper left of your screen performing a tone you can see the the edge of Cape Canaveral in both of the side booster cameras those white center core and Sherbourne shut down and even though very similar those two boosters views those are actually representing different boosters to begin their landing burns he's lookin to be on track to arms anyways at the pool spaceport friendship checking your screen loses footage goes out when it approaches the drone ship and the heavy vibrations make it lose signal crossing our fingers that's not the case right now so it looks like that landing is happening at the moment we have lost signal we're hoping that signal comes back shortly as Michael mentioned earlier with the vibrations of the rocket and how it shakes up the cameras that are on the drone ship sometimes we do lose signal or shakes up the antennas oh and we've just gotten confirmation wait here what happens is oh we're listening in and and we're still waiting to hear I will let you know as soon as we find out you'll know people are cheering but we'll get the call and know hopefully very very soon how that Senator Corps is doing whether it's standing up proud on that drone ship or not those are absolutely gorgeous meanwhile the second stage is continuing its trajectory towards Mars it saw it's all looking good there John Ike come give us a recap of the full mission he stands often heavy camera cycling right now what he was coming down from low-earth orbit the second stage successfully got there and it got there is the culmination of a great falcon heavy test flight we let 27 engines through out of the Boosters up and down we separated the side boosters they came back spectacular simultaneous landing the center core did its job the second stage of it everything that you could want in a test flight we got here now we're just looking for the icing on the Cape to find out what happened on the drone show but all in all an outstanding test flight for Falcon Heavy momentous occasion I thank you so much to the range for contributing their expertise to today's launch the FAA for the licenses to launch and land those boosters as well as the rest of Falcon Heavy and thank you to you the viewers for joining us for a really really cool moment here and to find out what happened with the center core and what's going on with star man as he makes its journey through space and all of our launches you can visit us at SpaceX calm and follow us on social media on LinkedIn and Twitter if you would 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