{"id":2149,"date":"2017-05-15T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:59:20","slug":"falcon-5-launch-of-an-intelsat-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/falcon-5-launch-of-an-intelsat-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 Launch of an IntelSat Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the launch actually happened, we were looking for the launch site across the water. In the end, the actual launch site wasn’t visible from here, but I’ve included a couple of shots of things that we initially thought might be the launch site.<\/p>\n

A drone was hovering over the bay. Not sure whether that was in any way connected to the launch itself, but I’ve shared some pics here anyway.<\/p>\n

It was interesting to see that the pictures get more dramatic as the falcon 9 gets higher. Lower pressures outside of the nozzle and thus much greater expansion of the plume I’d guess.<\/p>\n

\"Not <\/a>
Not the launch site <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Definitely <\/a>
Definitely not the launch site <\/div> <\/div>
\"Drone <\/a>
Drone watching the festivities <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Someone <\/a>
Someone had a drone out over the bay <\/div> <\/div>
\"Initial <\/a>
Initial Launch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0030\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0056\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Starting <\/a>
Starting to see a more dramatic and colorful plume. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0076\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0085\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0091\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Whoosh!\" <\/a>
Whoosh! <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0112\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0151\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"...and <\/a>
…and off into the sunset <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"20170515-20170515-357A0201\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"There <\/a>
There were a couple frames after this one, but the vehicle is so far off that they weren’t really interesting. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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Before the launch actually happened, we were looking for the launch site across the water. In the end, the actual launch site wasn’t visible from here, but I’ve included a couple of shots of things that we initially thought might be the launch site. A drone was hovering over the bay. Not sure whether that … Continue reading Falcon 9 Launch of an IntelSat Payload<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7,41,44,10,24,26,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-disney-cruise","category-disneycruisemay2017","category-disneytripmay2017","category-disneytrips","category-galleries","category-photography","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EWhb-yF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}