How the SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Works (In 2 Minutes)

Name: How the SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Works (In 2 Minutes)
Uploaded: 2020-06-19
Duration: 2 min 19 s

The Back Story · June 19, 2020 · 2:19 · English · Documentary

Video from the channel The Back Story about Falcon 9, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:19. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

A short animation explaining how a launch of the Falcon 9, SpaceX's two-stage rocket, works, going through the vehicle from bottom to top.

The first stage uses nine Merlin engines and can compensate for the failure of one or two; it carries the rocket to about 100 km in altitude before separating. The second, with a single Merlin, carries the payload to its orbit.

The first stage returns guided by grid fins and with three burns: the boostback burn, which steers it toward the landing site; the reentry burn, which slows it from about 1,300 m/s to about 250 m/s; and the landing burn, which leaves it at about 2 m/s above a barge at sea.

How the SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Works (In 2 Minutes)

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