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Posted on 04/18/2018 5:37:08 PM PDT by Voption
"SpaceX launched NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch occurred at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. TESS was deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 49 minutes after launch. Following stage separation, SpaceX successfully landed Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
(Excerpt) Read more at spacex.com ...
Just watched Sat Sep over Australia.
Very nice.
I knew I heard the rumble! But I could see no contrail in the sky.
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