SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

2 -10 987654321 engines. Full power and liftoff of falcon nine and Inmarsat Go Falcon Go Inmarsat vehicle is pitching beverage Stage one, propulsion is nominal power range telemetry, nominal we are just about *** minute into flight and Falcon nine has successfully lifted off from pad 49 is supersonic at Cape Canaveral Space Force station carrying Inmarsat’s I six F two payload. We are coming up on max Q here and great news. We have just passed through MAX Q. That is the largest structural load that the vehicle sees on ascent. Now, the rocket is typically typically needs to go 17,500 MPH horizontally in order to avoid being pulled back down to Earth and get into orbit so you can keep an eye on the stage one telemetry, that’s on the bottom left hand of your screen there. You can see those nine M one D engines burning bright there on your screen. We do have three events coming up in rapid succession. That will be Miko state separation and SCS one. Miko is main engine cut off as where we shut down all nine of the M one D engines that you see burning bright on your screen. That will help slow the stage down and prepare for stage separation. That’s where the first stage will separate from second stage. First stage will come back home down to Earth while second stage continues with SCS one, that second stage engine start one and that m back engine will ignite on the second stage. We’re coming up on those three events here in *** few seconds. Miko stage separation and S E S one main engine cut off stage separation and recognition. Very cool views of Miko stage separation on your right hand screen, you can see that M back engine is glowing bright that has now ignited. On your left hand screen, you can see the grid fins deploying on that first stage coming up next will be fairing separation. The fairing helps protect the payload on ascent. But once we’re in the vacuum of space, we no longer need that protection so we will jettison the fairing hats and that’s coming up here in *** few seconds bearing separation and great call out and visual confirmation that fairing halves have deployed and we will be attempting to retrieve these fairing halves again tonight. Once they make their way back down to Earth acquisition of signal per meter, it’s about T plus four minutes into tonight’s mission if you’re just joining us now, Falcon nine has lifted off successfully carrying Inmarsat’s I six F two payload. Now, we’re about to begin the first of the two planned em back burns for satellite deployed around T plus six minutes. You should see on your screen the first stage is entry burn to start the entry burn, we will relight three of the M one D engines starting with the center engine known as E nine followed shortly by the E one and the E five engines which will slow down the vehicle as it passes back into Earth’s atmosphere. As Falcon nine is coming back down really fast. We need to slow down to reduce the reentry forces which will then help us recover and reuse that first stage During the entry Burn, Falcon nine is accelerating by firing its Merlin engines were still moving really fast. This causes the vehicle to fly through Merlin’s exhaust gasses or commonly known as *** rockets plume. This deposit *** layer of set on the vehicle’s surface. Now that set comes from the carbon-based fuels that Falcon nine uses and with each flight builds up *** little more on the outside of the vehicle, making it *** little city often times prior to *** launch. You can see that sit on your first stage as you can see on your screen, the second stage is glowing red and that is our m back engine now coming up in *** few seconds we should be seeing the entry burn begin for the first stage as the booster comes back on its way to Earth. As you can see on the left side of your screen that is the first stage and we’re just *** few seconds away from the entry burn begin. Stage one FTS is saved. Stage one entry Burn Startup As you can see and hear it. Stage one entry burn has begun. Mhm Yeah, stage one entry burn shut down as you can see in here on that stage one entry burn has shut down reusability is key to lowering the cost of spaceflight which enables more investment in critical scientific research. Falcon nine on your screen today is supporting and doing the reentry burn for the third time. Previously supported the GPS three space vehicle six and the crew five missions vehicles on *** nominal trajectory. The merlin’s on the first stage are optimized for sea level. These achieve around 100 and £90,000 of thrust during ascent and descent. Fun fact at liftoff, Falcon nine’s first stage has thrust greater than 5747 airplanes at full power and it’s consuming approximately about 700 gallons of fuel per second. That M back engine on your screen is optimized by £220,000 of thrust and vacuum. That is the vacuum of space coming up next. We should be seeing shut down on our end. Back engine on the second stage followed quickly by our landing burn on the first stage as it’s coming back down terminal gains and back shot down there you can see and hear on the nets we have confirmation of seco and the landing burn for stage one has begun. We are now just waiting for confirmation of orbital insertion for our second stage. The nets nominal orbital insertion. We are now waiting for falcon back on our drone ship. Just read the instructions And as you can see and hear it, you have SpaceX is 173rd recovery of an orbital class rocket, including first stage landings for Falcon nine and Falcon heavy.