SpaceX launches 'heaviest' Starlink batch yet, nails landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched its heaviest payload to date, carrying 56 Starlink satellites that weighed in at a combined 17.4 metric tonnes (19.4 tons). The rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 26, 2023. Full Story: www.space.com/spacex-starlink...
The first stage landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean several minutes after separation.
Credit; SpaceX

[@Number8of10]

Ya know you've made space launch routine when the countdown announcer sounds bored. 😂

[@nigelsmith721]

The commentary could be a bot at this point. Everything is exactly the same for every launch and that includes the commentary dialogue.

[@yourmodblockme5465]

Welp....soon Starship will be launch...cant wait to see it..

[@randybaumery5090]

Now we just need one to deploy warp drive pods and jet on over to Proxima Centauri.

[@pennythomas9305]

They keep that tone no matter if it is a perfect launch or if it becomes a tragedy, like Challenger and Columbia. Go back and listen to the playback of those. If you were able to see it live and hear/feel the sonic boom building, you would realize it is in no way routine. We stand on the Indian River shore, watching, waiting to see the telltale glow on the other side, Then, we get to watch the rocket go up! I hope one day you can come to the Space Coast and see one live. You will never forget it. Sorry to be so wordy, I love living here and wanted to share.

[@Number8of10]

@@pennythomas9305 I was there for the past Falcon Heavy. Epic!

[@robertochahin4518]

Never gets old

[@user-wk4em4od4s]

Perfect machine. Perfect work in the world. Perfect team in the world. Perfect mission. Thank you very much my friend.

[@jezzter4293]

Thanks for your video's, watching rocket launches never gets old!

[@paladin0654]

SpaceX is in a virtual world wide monopoly in this market segment with Falcon 9...no other organization can this with the reliability and cost.

[@madcarew5168]

Why is Main News so casual about this fantastic achievement??!!

[@andres1xy]

Agreed, there's nothing casual about this almost miracle event.

[@HowToSpacic]

starlink missions are very routine at this point, even if they hit another payload milestone they do that all the time, it's no longer a news-worthy thing

[@radosawolszewski3642]

Becouse people are connected only with fb and they are flat thinking minded.

[@yellowboxster06]

Because it flies in the face of those that believe only the government should be in the space business. Commercial companies outshining NASA is an embarrassment to the bureaucratic regime who burn tax dollars like kindling wood.😊

[@henryquezada1893]

Outstanding!!!

[@bigpicture3]

Literally like you are right there. Compared to the information that used to be released about the moon vehicles and space shuttles etc.

[@patdriver5696]

Absolutely amazing.

[@billlee536]

AGAIN……THIS IS JUST CRAZY 😢

[@andres1xy]

Agreed, just insane.

[@Militaryman64]

1:34 Reaching Max Q with the maximum load capacity SpaceX-F9 ,like butter,that's power 👀 wait till big brother comes, a new era will be ushered.

[@luizaquino5935]

Esplêndido!!!

[@kiwigurn]

Heaviest lift...so more starlink sats , different orbit or improved sats?

[@jtr82369]

Yeeeessss, more satellites

[@GroovyVideo2]

watched this camping middle of no where using Starlink

[@MM_in_Havasu]

China: We launched another rocket today. Space X: Hold my beer.....

[@CDCLLC2023]

Still the best show on and above Earth!

[@michaelrunnels7660]

What is the pulsing movement above the engine on the second stage? It looks somewhat like a hydraulic tube that's rapidly pressurizing and depressurizing.

[@harryaraka]

Yeah It looked strange I thought it was camera cuts😅

[@widescreennavel]

So does this reach the Moon and back or does it need some hitech cockring to make it better?

[@frouchitude1916]

Where does the fairing go after the separation?

[@its_ya_boinibbs4394]

burns up in the atmosphere I'm guessing.

[@wormrose01]

They fall into the ocean and are recovered for re-use by the recovery boats Bob & Doug.

[@frouchitude1916]

@@wormrose01 OK! I guessed but i wasn't so shure they were doing it everytimes.

[@seawench555]

Monumental EPIC, I wish I could afford this phenomenal service, thanks Space X ,Musk ur a genius.

[@Saitama-gm9fv]

“This is Elon Musk”

[@fw1421]

Main mews doesn’t care about important happenings,only what they are told to produce by their advertisers.

[@ericm1430]

Elon is the man. present day einstein

[@katima8065]

Lets go to mars already

[@aaryamannahar]

Gigachad Musk

[@cbskwkdnslwhanznamdm2849]

His haters have no life

[@murattekin1979t]

Ok

[@clevergirl4457]

ok

[@KishanKumar-ib5sh]

Ok

[@davidcrabb7293]

Bunch of tungsten rods

[@toddb930]

This continues to amaze me. And nice to see after all the destruction Elon made to Twitter. Sounds like he puffed up Tesla yesterday.

[@yogavnture1]

im chinese hacker on board and stowaway. i want one starlink to fiddle with in my shop in chungshu china

[@jerryodom7358]

Say bye to more of earths water as they shuttle it into space….

[@malcolm20091000]

The earth loses about 7,000 gallons/day to space, every day. Doesn't need a rocket.

[@XoXo475]

Oh great more space junk to spoil our view of the stars 😢

[@jamesalbanito1317]

If all 6000 satellites rotating the earth (mostly junk satellites, btw) had a footprint the size of the ISS (126,736 ft², arguably the largest satellite ever created), there would be 760,416,000 ft² of satellites rotating the earth, blocking our view of the stars. This is around 27 mi² of footprint surrounding our earth of satellites - mind you, if they were all the size of the ISS. New York, a tiny dot from space, is 472 mi². So, ALL the satellites IF they were the size of the ISS would be 1/17th the size of the city of New York...surrounding the GLOBE....the WHOLE EARTH. I'm afraid we are incapable of blocking our view of the stars my friend.

[@nevernotdead8095]

🧠?

[@jamesalbanito1317]

I'm not sure what a brain with a question mark means...but the math does not lie. The number of satellites we have orbiting the earth is so miniscule in size compared to the size of even a small town that it has barely negligible effects on the view of our stars.

[@nevernotdead8095]

@@jamesalbanito1317 My response was meant to be directed towards the original comment, not at all to your reply to the comment. I agree with you, sir.

[@jamesalbanito1317]

@@nevernotdead8095 cool. I'm not great at this yet, so I didn't notice the implication. Thanks.

[@blxtothis]

Dreadful CGI!

[@Ethan_Roberts]

Where's the CGI?

[@datathunderstorm]

This NEVER gets old. I watched Saturn 5 boosters roar into the space, only to be discarded at the bottom of the sea - all those resources expended in one magnificent firework. And here we are today. Look at us Cave Men GO…..🥲