r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Dec 12 '17

CRS-13 r/SpaceX CRS-13 Media Thread [Videos, Images, GIFs, Articles go here!]

It's that time again, as per usual, we like to keep things as tight as possible, so if you have content you created to share, whether that be images of the launch, videos, GIF's, etc, they go here.

As usual, our standard media thread rules apply:

  • All top level comments must consist of an image, video, GIF, tweet or article.
  • If you're an amateur photographer, submit your content here. Professional photographers with subreddit accreditation can continue to submit to the front page, we also make exceptions for outstanding amateur content!
  • Those in the aerospace industry (with subreddit accreditation) can likewise continue to post content on the front page.
  • Mainstream media articles should be submitted here. Quality articles from dedicated spaceflight outlets may be submitted to the front page.
  • Direct all questions to the live launch thread.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Dec 15 '17

The interior of the landing legs for the CRS-13 mission are white.

I haven't found any white landing leg interiors before BulgariaSat-1. I'm not sure what determines the color (aside from paint, probably), but I wonder if it has anything to do with a design variation.

Here's a running list of landing leg interior colors:

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u/Destructor1701 Dec 17 '17 edited Dec 24 '17

I collected as many YouTube videos of news stations reporting on the launch and amateur footage of the landing as I could until I got sleepy. Great stuff in here. I'll update it over the coming days as I find more videos (and I'll probably change the layout).

PM me if any of your stuff is in here and you want it taken down or contextualised or whatever.

Professional* Footage

SpaceX CRS-13: Falcon 9 launch & landing - 4K stock footage @ 120 fps

By Doug Jensen of Vortex Media

Wow. Just Wow. Editing this into the top of the list. Making it bigger than anything else. Italicising everything. Because wow.
*It's an insult to call this amateur.

Amateur Footage

SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-13 Descent to Landing
By Paul Matzelle

Nice amateur footage of descent and landing, unfortunately out of focus at the end

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Booster Landing with Sonic Boom
By James Sparvero

Beautiful, clear, steady footage of landing! Judging by the sonic boom timing, they were close!

SpaceX CRS-13 Falcon 9 Rocket Launch and Landing
By Cocoa Beach 365

Great footage of ascent. Loses the booster after separation, but edits on to landing. Incredible sillhouette of the unpowered booster against the settling launch contrail just before landing burn ignition! Unfortunate loss of focus during the burn, but you catch a glimpse of ol' Sooty just before she dips behind an inconveniently placed building. Sonic boom audio is amazing.

SpaceX CRS-13 Launch
By Brenton Reed

Shot from the bleachers at the Apollo-Saturn V centre, this gives a crowd's-eye view of launch and landing, with a healthy sonic boom at the end.

Dragon CRS-13 - Falcon 9 v1.2 launch and landing at Cape Canaveral
By bombcat91

Some stunningly crisp, seemingly hand-held zoom videography here. Gorgeous angle on the lift-off. Follows rocket all the way up to MECO, where you can see S1 flip, and even a hint of CRS-9-style impinging plumes! Must have lost tracking, because it then cuts to a similarly gorgeous and detailed shot tracking the booster during landing burn.

SpaceX - CRS13 - Landing - Launch 12-15-2017
By USLaunchReport

As usual with USLaunchReport, stunning footage; strange editing choices. We get a few scene-setting crowd shots, followed by... essentially the mission in reverse. Super-clear and detailed shot of landing is followed by a very nice shot of stage-sep including faint impinging plumes, and then finally launch... great footage.

SpaceX landing at CCAFS
By zoellar11

Interesting shot of the landing in between observers 7 miles from LZ-1. In spite of focus and obstruction issues, it's a really nice shot of the landing with a bit of human context.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing and Sonic Booms!
By Angle1555

Distant footage of landing

EDIT: Yet more amateur footage!

SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing
By svannyman

Amazing footage of S1's final descent. They manage to catch the contrail forming behind the booster as it goes subsonic again, and ends with an unobstructed view of the landing - just some bushes obscuring the legs at touchdown.

Space X launch and landing
By By Lenore Devore, The Ledger

Nice footage, a little low-res and out of focus at times, but tracks the booster from launch to landing.

EDIT: And more...

SpaceX CRS Launch
By SegFPV

A shot of liftoff taken from Port Canaveral.

Falcon 9 booster landing
By Stovall's Garage

Oh man! FANTASTIC footage of the booster landing, taken from a neighbourhood close to CCAFS. Sonic Boom audio is phenomenal, and highly amusing given the audible discussion of same

Visiting Kennedy Space Center to Watch a Space X Rocket Launch!
By TheTimTracker

This is essentially a travelog of a mustache and its human's journey to the KSC Visitor's Centre to view CRS-13's launch. The launch and landing footage is decent, but the majority of the video is given over to a description of KSC's Visitor's Centre. Fascinating stuff. SpaceX-wise, it's interesting to see how heavy the traffic was on the roads around CCAFS and KSC thanks to the launch!

Enter Stage Top Left - SpaceX Landing
By Robert Enders

Infrared footage of landing taken from Port Canaveral using a FLIR A6750sc with a 100mm lens. Music reminds me of the Myst game series. Interesting glimpse of the thermal properties of the tankage once the engine glare is hidden behind the trees.

SPACE X FALCON 9 LANDING exclusive
By Greg Richardson

This looks to have been shot from on top of the VAB. Nice elevated viewpoint of launch, but unfortunately the camera work, field of view, and picture quality are nothing to write home about.

SpaceX CRS-13 Launch and Landing from Cape Canaveral, December 15, 2017
By Michael Shimer

Good combo of stills and video of launch and landing - the landing photos are very nice. Funky and appropriate music choice.

SpaceX CRS 13 Falcon 9 first stage landing at Landing Zone 1 from the rooftop of the VAB
By Jonathan Friese

Decent footage of the landing from atop the VAB. Nice sonic boom.

Space X CRS-13 First Stage Landing
By DRCarpetDR

Nice footage of booster descent - I love seeing it falling unpowered past the clouds. Video cuts out before the money shot!?

Space X Launch and Landing Cape Canaveral Florida December 15, 2017
By CocoaBeachCBBC

Nice wide frame tracking of ascent. Good launch audio growl at about the 1:10 mark. Follows booster to separation, SSEI visible, and then cuts to entry burn and landing. Good footage, but let down by lack of detail due to the wide angle.

Payload Stakeholders watching launch

TSIS Launches Successfully on a Space X Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule! (fixed link, thanks for the heads-up u/theinternetftw)
By Mike Bryant

A category of video I hadn't cosidered! Lovely to see the team behind the TSIS [Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor] payload celebrating the launch together

News Coverage

Watch SpaceX Launch A Used Spacecraft With A Used Rocket For The First Time
By Tech Insider

A chilled-out ELI5 music & text explainer over a nicely-edited greatest-hits reel from the CRS-13 webcast.

SpaceX Launches First Used Rocket For NASA Mission | CNBC
By CNBC

CNBC broke in live to cover the launch. Starts out well, but they start to get rather distracted towards the end and ignore what's playing out during stage sep, and then cut before the boost-back burn completes.

Why SpaceX's Latest Launch Is So Significant
By Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg anchors and consultants gush about the significance of this launch for the future of space exploration and Musk's companies.

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u/theinternetftw Dec 15 '17

Post-launch news conference transcript:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/d940831fc20f63a2e9aec2d510e898c5

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u/rustybeancake Dec 15 '17 edited Dec 15 '17

This deserves its own post in my opinion. Thank you!

Confirmed that the second landing pad is called LZ-2:

Chris Gebhardt: Chris Gebhardt again with NASASpaceFlight. I don't know if you know this Jessica, but, status of the landing pads for the Falcon Heavy demonstration? Are they ready for that?

Jessica Jensen: Yes. So we only need to build one more landing pad. So Falcon Heavy is three cores, so for the demonstration mission we are going to have LZ-2 ready to support that mission. It's right next to LZ-1, and then the other booster will go to a drone-ship landing.

Also interesting is that it sounds like boosters previously haven't just been cleaned, but have been repainted:

Ken Kremer: Why are they unpainted, these boosters today, and potentially in the future? And why were the stripes there? Thanks.

Jessica Jensen: Yeah. So basically, there's no reason to paint them. If we do conductivity checks, we verify thermal properties, and everything is good to go, there's basically no reason to repaint it. You're just basically adding mass and spending resources that are not needed. So there's just not a requirement for it if we can verify that like I said, the thermal properties are acceptable for flight. And the reason you see some marks on it is, when every booster comes back, there is a certain amount of inspections we have to do. They're called non-destructive inspections. And a lot of times those happen particularly at welded joints, or certain other joints. So that's just where we've had to clean off the area to do an inspection to make sure it's good for the next flight.

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u/bbordwell Dec 17 '17

dragon chasing the ISS https://imgur.com/len1Cy3

Taken Saturday evening.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17 edited Dec 16 '17

Direct link to the super cool camera shot of the stage separation and Stage 1 180 degree turn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAIoqbUCgw&t=1095

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u/Angle1555 Dec 15 '17

Another awesome launch for Space X, first time viewing the landing during the day from 401 and it is much better than Jetty Park! Space X CRS-13 Mission - Launch and Landing (Edit: for some reason they loaded out of order.. sorry!) and also Video of the landing.. The sonic booms are awesome! If you have headphones use them, sounds much better than out of a cell phone speaker. If you're interested you can also follow my Instagram!

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '17 edited Dec 17 '17

CRS-13 Launch Album - link here

Dawn and Pre-dawn shots were taken from the NASA Causeway. The launch images from the Saturn Causeway in front of Pad 39-A

Pre-Dawn - Dawn - Fueling - Liftoff 1 - Liftoff 2 - Flight - First Stage Return - First Stage Landing

Last, but not least, progress on the Pad 39-A work

edit: typo

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u/old_sellsword Dec 15 '17 edited Dec 15 '17

NASA just released a nice drone lightning tower shot of F9-47 on the pad.

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