Friday, March 10, 2023

ASCENT

 Ascent, and..


Return!


With the East Coast Setzers yesterday, we watched a Falcon 9 launch from Pad 40 at KSC and 1st stage return 8 minutes later at Landing Zone 1..

Brownbird - March 10th

This was the 3rd launch of OneWeb satellites (40 in this batch), and the 12th use of this particular booster. Roar and sonic booms!



2 comments:

Ortamp said...

That launch picture is really nice...I'm assuming you didn't use your cell phone to take it!

brownbird said...

Threaded a monopod on the pocket camera and hit the tele...3 shots and took the best one.
The 1st stage return pad was about 30 degrees south of the launch pad, so I barely got a quick shot in before it landed =:o(