Launch News SpaceX 3rd F9 Reflight: ECHOSTAR 105/SES-11 (October 11, 22:53 UTC)

[Nicholas Kang]

All the best and good luck! :thumbup:

 

[llarian]

Another great launch and first stage recovery. Almost seems to be becoming "Old Hat" by now.

 

[Nicholas Kang]

Successful S/C Separation!

Some launch and landing photos.

Launch video:

 

[ADSWNJ]

Another great launch and first stage recovery. Almost seems to be becoming "Old Hat" by now.

Yup agree. 2 launches within a couple days, opposite sides of the continent ... flawless launches and landings. I guess it becomes routine at some point, but the amount of effort required to make this look easy must be ridiculous.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Another great launch and first stage recovery. Almost seems to be becoming "Old Hat" by now.

Wait, what? I missed this one completely. :huh:

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I'm looking at this first stage re-entry again - looks like it came in really hot and fast. I see some sparks coming off the bottom of the stage during the re-entry and the grid fins appear to get red hot from re-entry.

Maybe the re-entry burn was too short or otherwise mis-timed?

Something about a scorched and smoking rocket stage still landing as intended really stirs something primal in this engineer, I must say.