| --> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- |
| 59:36 | · | ...10 9 8 7 6 5 4 |
| 59:43 | · | 3 2 1 engine ignition and liftoff of the |
| 59:49 | · | falcon9 rocket with a gat N2 Mission Falcon 9 has cleared the |
| 59:55 | · | tower e |
| 1:00:12 | · | [Music] |
| 1:00:26 | · | [Music] |
| 1:00:49 | · | and a good lift off of the Falcon 9 rocket so far |
| 1:00:58 | · | little more than a minute into flight the Falcon 9 now traveling faster than the speed of sound approaching Max |
| 1:01:09 | · | Q Max Q represents the point of greatest a dynamic pressure on the vehicle did |
| 1:01:14 | · | hear that call for Max Q we're coming up on a few events now in |
| 1:01:22 | · | Fairly rapid succession |
| 1:01:27 | · | we'll see first stage main ENT cut off or Mo at about t plus 2 minutes and 26 |
| 1:01:33 | · | seconds that'll be followed seconds later by stage separation about 6 seconds after that by the ignition of |
| 1:01:40 | · | the Merlin vacuum engine and then the payload fairings will separate about 3 minutes and 17 seconds into flight |
| 1:02:10 | · | you can see actually a nice shadow on the cloud just beneath the falcon9 |
| 1:02:15 | · | rocket the ascent |
| 1:02:23 | · | plume nice little visual tip there to this |
| 1:02:31 | · | launch main engine cut off stage separation |
| 1:02:39 | · | confirmed and recognition all good call outs from |
| 1:02:47 | · | SpaceX good sequence there Merlin fact he mentioned coming to life and you can |
| 1:02:53 | · | see that first stage booster heading back towards |
| 1:03:09 | · | Earth coming up on fairing separation here momentarily great views of both stages in Flight right now you can see |
| 1:03:15 | · | the first stage on the left side of your screen now in a coast phase and the second stage on the right side of your |
| 1:03:21 | · | screen burning towards orbit |
| 1:03:30 | · | and there we go great news just saw those two fairing halves separate our payload Gat N2 is now exposed to the |
| 1:03:37 | · | vacuum of space heading now t+ 3 minutes 58 seconds and |
| 1:03:45 | · | counting in real time 350 on the SpaceX feed good Ascent so far of this Mission |
| 1:03:52 | · | some nice views of the Gat N2 |
| 1:04:00 | · | satellite at this point the next Milestone that's coming up is the first stage entry burn which will come up at |
| 1:04:07 | · | about t plus 6 minutes and 13 |
| 1:04:17 | · | seconds first stage booster appears to have reached its apy here at about 122 |
| 1:04:23 | · | kilometers in altitude |
| 1:04:32 | · | once the entry burn Begins the falcon9 first stage will start to slow |
| 1:04:38 | · | dramatically you'll see the speedometer plummet quite |
| 1:04:52 | · | rapidly SpaceX uses uh Trio of its Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 first |
| 1:04:58 | · | stage booster to conduct the entry burn coming up in just about a minute at this |
| 1:05:24 | · | point it's good view use from the inner stage there on the left hand side of |
| 1:05:30 | · | your screen good flight of the second stage so far as well |
| 1:06:03 | · | coming up on the entry burn |
| 1:06:16 | · | here heard the call for stage one entry burn as well as the safing of the FTS |
| 1:06:24 | · | the flight termination system now no longer needed at this stage in |
| 1:06:34 | · | Flight with this burn lasting roughly 20 seconds or so |
| 1:06:41 | · | you can see the speedometer quite quickly dropping here as the entry burn |
| 1:06:46 | · | has completed Falcon 9 now slowing as well through atmospheric drag |
| 1:07:00 | · | the periodic bursts that you'll see in between those two Hypersonic grid fins |
| 1:07:05 | · | are the Colt gas thrusters on the Falcon's first stage help to adjust the |
| 1:07:10 | · | attitude or the positioning of the Falcon 9 first AG booster as it makes its way down towards the Drone ship just |
| 1:07:17 | · | read the instructions |
| 1:07:37 | · | first stage now traveling below the speed of sound now unlike a starling commission |
| 1:07:44 | · | we'll actually see the first stage Landing burn begin almost in sequence |
| 1:07:51 | · | with the cut off of the Merlin vacuum engine so they'll happen about a second |
| 1:07:59 | · | apart call for the landing burn and call for M back |
| 1:08:14 | · | shutdown nominal orbital insertion stage one leaning L deploy |
| 1:08:26 | · | stage one Landing confirmed and for a 19th time this first |
| 1:08:32 | · | stage booster b173 has landed once again |
| 1:08:41 | · | safely this Landing Mark spacex's 371st booster Landing to date and the 998th |
| 1:08:48 | · | booster Landing for this particular drone ship just read the |
| 1:08:53 | · | instructions nice view of of the Gat N2 |
| 1:08:58 | · | satellite as it continues on its way coming up next will be the reignition of |
| 1:09:05 | · | the Merlin vacuum engine on the second stage at about t+ 26 minutes 41 seconds |
| 1:09:11 | · | it'll be a burn of a little bit more than a minute setting up for the deployment of the |
| 1:09:17 | · | satellite just about 33 minutes and 58 seconds post liftoff |
| 1:09:26 | · | it's a really nice clear views of this satellite as the sun is hitting it at a really nice |
| 1:09:34 | · | angle mailing on countdown one I wanted to say a special word for Michael Taylor |
| 1:09:40 | · | as this will be his final mission he has been at the Forefront of space flight for the United States for several |
| 1:09:47 | · | decades we would not be where we are today where in United States Space Program history without him and we'd not |
| 1:09:54 | · | be where we are today at SpaceX without Mike Taylor so from all of us at SpaceX |
| 1:09:59 | · | Mike We Salute You we thank you and we look forward to your future |
| 1:10:06 | · | Journeys great words there from our LD and congrats on an amazing career Mike |
| 1:10:18 | · | Taylor some good Awards there to their SpaceX colleague amid this ongoing flight which |
| 1:10:26 | · | is about a third of the way through now post |
| 1:10:41 | · | liftoff is a Next Generation communication satellite owned by nsil |
| 1:10:46 | · | weighing 4,700 kg built by is for meeting the |
| 1:10:52 | · | high throughput communication requirements it's operating in K Band uh |
| 1:10:58 | · | providing almost 48 gabes per second throughput uh this spacecraft is after |
| 1:11:05 | · | the launch is going to be positioned at 68° east longitude uh providing |
| 1:11:10 | · | Broadband services and inflight connectivity primarily on the Indian region there are going to be uh about 32 |
| 1:11:18 | · | sport beams uh covering India Mainland and islands of this region and primarily |
| 1:11:24 | · | this is designed to also to enhance the capacity by providing eight narrow sport beams over the northeastern region of |
| 1:11:31 | · | India which requires this support for uh essential communication requirements the whole spacecraft is |
| 1:11:38 | · | designed using the isos well proven i6k bus with a 6.2 Kow power generation |
| 1:11:46 | · | operating in 70 volts bus voltage and uh the propell system is a |
| 1:11:51 | · | bipropellant system for Ortiz and its station keep keeping and we are expecting that it's uh precise launching |
| 1:11:59 | · | we will have an orbital life of almost 14 years while building the space card we |
| 1:12:05 | · | used the support of Indian Industries who built us with the lot of subsystems including structures and Hardwares meant |
| 1:12:13 | · | for the satellites and also the Bots and uh is centers contributed in various |
| 1:12:18 | · | ways to build the satellite finally uh I'm really happy that the satellite is now ready for launch and uh uh will |
| 1:12:26 | · | reach its destined orbit meantime in the ground to asasa satl is in the required |
| 1:12:32 | · | sport we are ready with the ground infrastructure to provide the network of communication very very fast as soon as |
| 1:12:38 | · | it is made declared operational hoping to see the launch uh go really fine and |
| 1:12:45 | · | all the very best to the team |
| 1:12:59 | · | and with some good words from the Indian space research organization leadership |
| 1:13:05 | · | we are now in the aformentioned coast phase you can see the Telemetry of the |
| 1:13:10 | · | second stage now cruising over the heart of the Atlantic Ocean making its way |
| 1:13:16 | · | towards the western coast of the continent of Africa currently t+ 13 minutes 27 |
| 1:13:25 | · | seconds and counting from the SpaceX feed which is where we'll be getting our visuals from here on |
| 1:13:31 | · | out again the next Milestone that we're looking for is coming up in about 13 or |
| 1:13:37 | · | roughly 12ish minutes from now when the second stage engine the Merlin vacuum |
| 1:13:43 | · | engine will reignite for about a 65 second |
| 1:13:48 | · | burn positioning the satellite to be deployed at about t plus 33 minutes and |
| 1:13:54 | · | 58 seconds |
| 1:14:22 | · | as we continue to track the progress of that second stage on its way towards spacecraft deployment do want to thank a |
| 1:14:29 | · | few more folks for your support in our live launch coverage today the third and less than 24 hours |
| 1:14:36 | · | it's been a blistering Pace here thanks to uh jabel Zimmerman apologies if I |
| 1:14:45 | · | mispronounced your name there but appreciate the $10 Super Chat and the kind of wordss saying thanks for the coverage appreciate you jelle |
| 1:14:55 | · | Trinity AKA mommy mama t one of our wonderful channel members also with a $10 Super Chat saying thank you to the |
| 1:15:01 | · | awesome mods I agree we have I would argue the best moderators in the game |
| 1:15:06 | · | another Channel member Mitchell Wilbur with a very generous $20 Super Chat thank you Mitchell good to see this |
| 1:15:12 | · | afternoon says good job all involved appreciate that support Patty |
| 1:15:17 | · | chel $5 Super Chat good to see you again Patty who says awesomeness thank you |
| 1:15:23 | · | space flight now thank you mods and live chat peeps I was a great time thank |
| 1:15:29 | · | you and appreciate spikes as well with a 5B Super Chat as |
| 1:15:41 | · | well I see our moderator Mark Otto has also joined |
| 1:15:46 | · | us helping us out here in the live chat appreciate you mark popping in here and |
| 1:15:52 | · | of course as we're getting ready for the deployment here between now and flight 6 |
| 1:15:58 | · | we do have a mission preview up on the channel here on YouTube so you can go ahead and take a look at what we are |
| 1:16:05 | · | anticipating what SpaceX is planning for flight 6 not only just talking about the |
| 1:16:12 | · | mission from our understanding of it but we also had the opportunity to speak oneon-one with the member of NASA's |
| 1:16:20 | · | astronaut office NASA astronaut Randy bresnik who helps oversee some of the |
| 1:16:26 | · | testing and checkouts and offers feedback on all of the human involved |
| 1:16:32 | · | parts of the Artemis architecture so we had a great conversation with him last week part of |
| 1:16:39 | · | that is embedded within the video currently up on the channel we're working on getting that full |
| 1:16:44 | · | conversation up on the channel a daily later today so you can have that ahead of launch as well so be |
| 1:16:52 | · | looking forward to that and again you can watch our Mission preview right |
| 1:16:58 | · | now whenever you want to get a little bit of inspiration on what's ahead not |
| 1:17:03 | · | only for flight six but for starship's role as the human Landing system for the |
| 1:17:10 | · | emis |
| 1:17:23 | · | program |
| 1:17:53 | · | e |
| 1:18:23 | · | e |
| 1:18:53 | · | e e |
| 1:19:42 | · | now currently t+ 19 minutes 58 seconds in |
| 1:19:49 | · | counting so far the Flight of the second stage of the falcon rocket continues on |
| 1:19:56 | · | well with this |
| 1:20:02 | · | Mission at present the upper stage is about to pass over the coast of |
| 1:20:10 | · | Sagal continuing on with the mission |
| 1:20:23 | · | here e |
| 1:20:55 | · | as we are awaiting the deployment of the Gat N2 satellite want to go ahead and |
| 1:21:01 | · | take a look back now at Star base in southern Texas SpaceX completed a fueling test of |
| 1:21:10 | · | its Starship Rocket yesterday and is working towards the |
| 1:21:16 | · | launch of this vehicle on flight Six coming up tomorrow in the late afternoon uh 400 PM |
| 1:21:23 | · | Central Time liftoff 500 p.m. Eastern 2200 |
| 1:21:32 | · | UTC the reason they're looking at a later launch than the previous flights |
| 1:21:38 | · | is so they can get a daylight splash down of the ship upper stage in the |
| 1:21:43 | · | waters of the Indian |
| 1:21:49 | · | Ocean reportedly there have been some Marine vessels that have departed |
| 1:21:56 | · | from the coast of Australia to deploy some buoys out in the water to capture |
| 1:22:02 | · | video of the entry similar to the ones that we saw |
| 1:22:07 | · | used during flight five so presumably those will also be |
| 1:22:13 | · | equipped with spacex's starlink satellite internet capabilities and we'll get some good live views of ship |
| 1:22:19 | · | upper stage as it makes its way down towards a softwater splash down if all |
| 1:22:25 | · | goes well with this |
| 1:22:53 | · | mission e |
| 1:23:48 | · | now tus 26 minutes 41 seconds in counting |
| 1:23:55 | · | excuse me 23 minutes uh or now 24 minutes and Counting looking at the next |
| 1:24:00 | · | fueling Milestone that I was going to |
| 1:24:06 | · | relay so I to put that in the the right order we're about 24 minutes 15 seconds |
| 1:24:13 | · | and counting into the mission just about 2ish minutes away |
| 1:24:20 | · | from the start of that second stage engine burn for a second time |
| 1:24:29 | · | we've got a visual now of the upper stage looks like it's peeking into an |
| 1:24:36 | · | orbital sunset or an orbital Sunrise a little hard to |
| 1:24:53 | · | tell e |
| 1:25:38 | · | first space six the recovery vessel Bob was on Deck to scoop up the fairing |
| 1:25:44 | · | halves one half flying for a first time the other half flying for a fifth time |
| 1:25:54 | · | we're now about 30 40 seconds on the SpaceX feed away from the ignition of |
| 1:26:02 | · | the Merlin vacuum engine |
| 1:26:10 | · | here take a moment to briefly share a launch photo from our photographer Michael Kane of the liftoff of this |
| 1:26:17 | · | falcon9 rocket beginning its Journey here now just about 26 minutes ago |
| 1:26:26 | · | coming up on roughly 10 seconds away from the ignition of that Merlin vacuum engion let's go ahead and listen in for |
| 1:26:33 | · | the call |
| 1:26:41 | · | out and V |
| 1:26:48 | · | ignition good ignition of that Merlin vacuum engine |
| 1:26:57 | · | with this burn they will accelerate into the geostationary transfer orbit into |
| 1:27:02 | · | which the Gat N2 satellite will be |
| 1:27:08 | · | deployed this burn lasting a little more than a minute in |
| 1:27:23 | · | total e |
| 1:27:59 | · | call for the shutdown of the Merlin vacuum engine |
| 1:28:21 | · | here nice view of the satellite here with a good burn for a second time of |
| 1:28:27 | · | that Merlin vacuum engine the upper stage will Coast for |
| 1:28:35 | · | just a few minutes here before the deployment of the satellite coming up at about t plus 33 minutes and 58 seconds |
| 1:29:09 | · | taking a look at our live chat here uh one of the folks in the chat Chris Cotter asking when we were showing those |
| 1:29:16 | · | views of star base asking if that was an open Highway running past |
| 1:29:21 | · | Starship he says I've seen people take really close pictures and yes in fact |
| 1:29:26 | · | State Road 4 which is a road that extends from Brownsville out to boa |
| 1:29:32 | · | Chica Beach is a publicly accessible road so as you can see those cars going |
| 1:29:37 | · | to and from some of them will be SpaceX employees but especially around the time |
| 1:29:43 | · | when we're just about a day ahead of launch things get really busy down here |
| 1:29:48 | · | and you have a lot of folks from not only the Rio Grand Valley Community |
| 1:29:54 | · | coming down to check out the rocket fully stacked but also a lot of |
| 1:30:00 | · | journalists uh hobbyists space enthusiasts fols from various parts of |
| 1:30:05 | · | the country and the world come down to see this rocket one of the closest places in the world where you can see an |
| 1:30:13 | · | actual piece of flight Hardware without any type of special security clearance |
| 1:31:22 | · | e e |
| 1:32:01 | · | now t+ 32 minutes 6 seconds and counting from the SpaceX |
| 1:32:10 | · | feed we're coming up on the final couple of minutes prior to the deployment of |
| 1:32:17 | · | the Gat N2 |
| 1:32:22 | · | satellite e |
| 1:32:55 | · | now less than a minute to satellite |
| 1:33:03 | · | deployment at an altitude now for the second stage of 730 M or |
| 1:33:10 | · | kilometers upper stage of the falcon9 rocket now well above the orbiting altitude of the |
| 1:33:17 | · | International Space Station which orbits at about 400 km above sea level |
| 1:33:37 | · | as we're approaching Halo deployment let's go ahead and listen |
| 1:33:43 | · | into that final call out |
| 1:34:02 | · | Gat N2 payload deploy confirmed and a good deployment of GAD |
| 1:34:10 | · | and2 |
| 1:34:48 | · | with a good deployment of the satellite we'll turn to our mission stats they currently stand in just a moment we're |
| 1:34:54 | · | just letting the final views of that play out as you can see |
| 1:35:00 | · | the strong back there at space launch complex 40 has also been brought into |
| 1:35:05 | · | the upright position as is PR usual here |
| 1:35:11 | · | part of spacex's process and turning around this pad as quickly as possible |
| 1:35:16 | · | for future launches |
| 1:35:26 | · | with a good liftoff and landing of the first stage booster a good deployment of |
| 1:35:31 | · | the Gat N2 satellite going to go ahead and close things out here with a look at the mission stats as they currently |
| 1:35:38 | · | stand briefly want to thank a couple more folks for their support before we get there though thanks to Paul camish |
| 1:35:44 | · | with a 5 pound Super Chat appreciate that Paul saying just want to say congratulations and to Lillian Manis |
| 1:35:52 | · | with a $5 Super Chat as well it's a little bit of support there thank you Lillian really appreciate |
| 1:36:02 | · | that and let's go ahead and put a pin in this with a look at the mission stats as |
| 1:36:08 | · | they currently stand this was the 19th flight of this particular First St booster |
| 1:36:15 | · | actually a little bit of a typo there it's 1073 not 1076 this was the 39 8 Falcon 9 launch |
| 1:36:25 | · | to date the 113th Falcon 9 launch of 2024 the 343rd Falcon booster reflight |
| 1:36:33 | · | or the launch of a booster that has flown at least once this is spacex's |
| 1:36:38 | · | 115th orbital launch of the year including two Falcon heavy launches this was the 127th orbital |
| 1:36:45 | · | launch within the last 365 days the 217th orbital launch from pad 40 and the |
| 1:36:54 | · | 272nd overall orbital launch from this pad as |
| 1:37:01 | · | well here's a look at a graphical representation of the Falcon family of rockets from year to year as we sit at5 |
| 1:37:10 | · | so far with the Falcon 9 Falcon heavy joined together moving on to some recovery stats this was the 998th |
| 1:37:16 | · | booster landing on the Drone ship just read the instructions the 292nd drone |
| 1:37:22 | · | ship landing and the 3 371st overall SpaceX booster Landing to date finally |
| 1:37:27 | · | with some Global orbital stats this was the 81st orbital launch from Florida this year the 122nd orbital launch from |
| 1:37:36 | · | us soil the 133rd orbital launch from us rocket company and the 217th orbital |
| 1:37:43 | · | launch attempt from around the world six orbital maps on the year so far here's |
| 1:37:49 | · | where the pie chart currently stands with the US continuing to hold 61 % of the pi China |
| 1:37:56 | · | 26 and Russia with 6% themselves and that'll go ahead and do |
| 1:38:03 | · | it for us three Falcon 9 flights less than 24 hours and now my friends our |
| 1:38:10 | · | attention from a live launch coverage standpoint pivots from here in Florida |
| 1:38:15 | · | and from California to down in Texas where spacex's Starship rocket is |
| 1:38:22 | · | preparing to lift off as soon as 400 p.m. central 5:00 p.m. Eastern 2200 UTC |
| 1:38:29 | · | tomorrow afternoon we'll of course have robust |
| 1:38:36 | · | live launch coverage leading up to that again you could see a mission preview right now on the YouTube channel look |
| 1:38:43 | · | for the live stream to join live as well if you haven't already be sure to subscribe to space flight now turn on |
| 1:38:48 | · | notifications that way you'll be alerted when we do start our live launch coverage |
| 1:38:54 | · | and we look forward to seeing you back here then as we join with our friends at lab Padre to bring you coverage of |
| 1:39:01 | · | Starship flight 6 want to thank our moderators in the live chat for helping us out with live |
| 1:39:08 | · | launch coverage today for this Mission a thanks to Mark AO to kalista Lee to |
| 1:39:13 | · | Aussie space girl for all your help today to Russy shackford for hanging out over on Launchpad live our |
| 1:39:20 | · | 24-hour live pad View stream here on YouTube thanks to our wonderful Channel |
| 1:39:26 | · | member Community for making these streams possible big thanks to Michael Kane for running the tracking |
| 1:39:33 | · | camera getting a static photo of the Falcon 9 as it took flight as well you could find him on X at MD Kane |
| 1:39:43 | · | Jr andna Bernstein's turn is coming up tomorrow with the launch of Starship |
| 1:39:48 | · | flight 6 you can find him on X as well he said aurn NYC thanks to our space |
| 1:39:54 | · | flight now editor Stephen young for running the technical operations of the program here and most of all thanks to |
| 1:40:00 | · | you for wherever you chose to watch this launch from here in Florida or elsewhere |
| 1:40:05 | · | around this big old world of ours for all of us here at space flight |
| 1:40:12 | · | now I'm Will Robinson Smith remember be good to yourselves be good to others and we will see you next time folks and |
| 1:40:18 | · | until then bye-bye |
