Get a rocket's-eye view of SpaceX's 200th orbital launch.
from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit for a variety of customers.since the company's 2002 founding. And it was the 15th mission for this particular Falcon 9's first stage, tying a SpaceX reuse record.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured this view of its Transporter-6 mission — the company's 200th orbital flight — on Jan. 3, 2022.
The first stage chronicled its journey to space and back with an onboard camera, the footage from whichThe video accelerates the action considerably, compressing liftoff and landing into just 90 seconds. But the sped-up footage still captures the essentials of a Falcon 9 flight nicely. It shows how the rocket's plume spreads out as the vehicle travels higher into ever-thinner air, for example, and highlights how intricately the booster controls its descent when coming back home to Earth.
That control comes courtesy of multiple features, including orientation-shifting nitrogen-gas thrusters and hypersonic grid fins, waffle-like structures near the booster's base that it deploys after reaching space.
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