REPLAY LIVE 🔴 LANCEMENT FALCON 9 DE SPACEX : STARLINK 5-10 (FR) !
Video from the channel Vulga-Space about Falcon 9, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 37:22. Language: French. Video type: Livestream.
What's being streamed
This is the recording of a live stream from a French informational channel following and commentating in French on the launch of the Starlink 5-10 mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 lifts off from the SLC-40 complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, with the company's official broadcast on screen. Before liftoff, the host reviews the mission: 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites heading to a low orbit with 43 degrees of inclination and about 17,200 kg of payload. This is the fourth flight of first stage B1077, which had previously flown on the Crew-5, GPS III-6, and Inmarsat 6-F2 missions. The landing vessel was waiting 660 km from the launch pad, and the ship Bob was to recover the fairing halves. Liftoff was scheduled for 22:01 Paris time, with a window until 1:54 a.m. on Thursday 30 March and a 60% chance of favorable weather given the wind and clouds.
Key moments
After liftoff, the launch vehicle passes the speed of sound and the maximum dynamic pressure zone at around 10 km altitude, with views of the Florida coastline and its launch pads. At about 4,600 km/h come the shutdown of the first stage's nine Merlin engines, stage separation, second-stage vacuum engine ignition, and fairing separation. The first stage deploys its grid fins and performs the three-engine reentry burn, which cuts about 1,500 km/h off its speed. It then returns to the dense part of the atmosphere below the speed of sound and performs the single-engine landing burn. The feed cuts out several times during descent.
Outcome
B1077 lands on the vessel, though not quite in the center, completing its fourth flight. The second stage shuts down its engine in an elliptical orbit, which had to be circularized afterward to deploy the satellites. The broadcast ends shortly after, and the host closes with the schedule of upcoming live streams.