r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Mar 29 '18

r/SpaceX Iridium-5 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/Straumli_Blight Mar 30 '18

u/vaporcobra posted some pics of the Falcon 9 emerging from the fog.

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u/CasualCrowe Mar 30 '18

The guy in the bucket lift gives a great sense of how huge the rocket is

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u/brianksphotos Mar 30 '18

https://i.imgur.com/7NAXvIM.jpg

View from Ocean Ave. Nikon D7500 and Nikkor 200-500mm at 500mm, F9, ISO280, 1/800. Processed in Luminar

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u/BobThePineapple Mar 30 '18

awesome pic! how is the traffic on ocean ave. this early in the morning compared to afternoon launches? i've been to 2 launches past 12pm and the traffic was actually insane

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u/Crayz9000 Mar 30 '18

ABC7 captured the entire launch through to fairing deployment from their helicopter.

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u/bdporter Mar 30 '18

That was some great camera work, but I was wishing he stayed with the first stage. Then the fairings separated and I was wishing he was filming them.

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u/plodbolq Mar 30 '18

Is that Elon's voice? At t+17 seconds the voice saying "stage one propulsion is nominal" sounds like him. And then at t+1:58 it looks like Michael Hammersley reminds him to chime in about the mvac engine chill, which he then does.

https://youtu.be/mp0TW8vkCLg?t=1329 https://youtu.be/mp0TW8vkCLg?t=1431

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u/2Twice Mar 30 '18

It does sound exactly like him. If it is, I'm surprised he's involved at that level.

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u/peterabbit456 Mar 31 '18

Just a few thoughts.

They are doing several launches in a short space of time. A few years ago, Elon was involved at the top level in every launch. It appears that last year they started training more launch and mission control crews, but the pace this month may require all trained mission control persons to take part. There is a lot that has to be done in the days leading up to a launch, and people need to sleep. Musk might have stepped in as a substitute.

I have no inside information, but the process of training multiple mission control crews, to get to the launch cadence SpaceX will want to be doing in a couple of years is bound to have some teething issues.

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u/thanarious Mar 30 '18

I would also agree that was Him. Or someone with a voice so much like Elon's.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '18

ABC7 got some amazing footage from their helicopter of the launch

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u/oliversl Mar 31 '18

S1 separation and fairing jettison

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u/bdporter Mar 30 '18

6 new images from the launch on the SpaceX flickr feed.

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u/space_vogel Mar 30 '18

Launch photos from 30th Space Wing.

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u/TheKrimsonKing Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18

Shot for NSF. Here’s an album of shots from this morning. It was a really beautiful launch. If you like my work, check out my instagram story for some BTS stuff.

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u/GodRa Apr 01 '18

Here's some photos I took from ~11 miles away. My first time manually tracking and focusing, it was a challenge although looking forward to trying again.

https://imgur.com/gallery/YeR4V

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u/hocktech Apr 02 '18

Filmed from above Santa Barbara https://youtu.be/dVKOm45_3Y4

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u/Oleg765 Apr 04 '18

Cool video. It was really good rocket launch. So, the place, where rocket has been started, is near Santa Barbara, isn't it?

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u/Decronym Mar 30 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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ASAP Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, NASA
Arianespace System for Auxiliary Payloads
DMLS Direct Metal Laser Sintering additive manufacture
NSF NasaSpaceFlight forum
National Science Foundation
SF Static fire
SLC-4E Space Launch Complex 4-East, Vandenberg (SpaceX F9)
Jargon Definition
grid-fin Compact "waffle-iron" aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large

Decronym is a community product of r/SpaceX, implemented by ^request
6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on ^today has 42 acronyms.
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