First-stage landing | Onboard camera

SpaceX · 2.7M views · 2016-05-28 · 0:31

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Overview

Sped-up onboard camera footage of the Falcon 9 first stage landing on a drone ship during the THAICOM 8 mission on May 27, 2016. It shows the descent from grid fin deployment to touchdown.

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HN links it in SpaceX landing threads as the best first-person view of how hard a booster landing is.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2017

Topics

Space exploration & spaceflight

What people said

dtparr · 2016-07 · Recommendation
Have you seen this[0] from Thaicom 8's landing on the ASDS? Shows everything from grid fin deploy onward during daylight hours. 0 - [VIDEO]
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mabbo · 2016-05 · Recommendation
The landing video from the rocket[0] really puts into perspective how much this truly is 'rocket science'. They placed a boat 600km away in the ocean, and the rocket moving at 3000+km/h from 80-ish km up landed on it using some grid fins to steer. I get how it works, how you can do it, but it's still kind of incredible that they actually have 3 times in a row. [0] [VIDEO] Edit: it was 8000km/h at MECO, not 3000km/h.
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stormtv · 2017-12 · Reference
Both the side boosters on the F9H inaugural flight will be reused boosters. The center boosters are only able to fly on F9H but are planned to be reusable. Here are both the landing videos of the side cores that will be flying on the F9H [VIDEO] [LINK]
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