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Trillions of Dollars were spent for defence worldwide in 2023, exactly $2,3T. What is with this with "smoke"? Money is more worth than blood. Did you ever saw a rocket which blown up on the pad and pushed billions of Dollars out of the nosecone? Also: the cost of this rocket is $63,000,000. Question: where the money is spent?

Wow! You are a novellist! I guess that is the longest story ever written since 2006 here by a follower, as we entered UA-cam. Interesting project they have. Most people (or humans) do have problems with changes, absolutely right. A lot don't want to leave their "comfort zone", even it means to do the next step wich would open a new door. They are glad with that what they have. Some have a real fear for a change, and because of that, we do have so much war & terror on that planet. Spending $2,3T (worldwide) in 2023 for defence says a lot. Let's think only about that, where we could be by using that money for things which would take humanity a step forward. Again, thanks for your story about your roadtrip, and the link to that project! We loved it!

Welcome in the year 2024. Next, please.

Vandenberg is used for sun-synchronous orbits, correct, so the flight path of the rocket after lift-off is to south. Launch limits at Vandenberg are 201 and 158 degrees. At a 201-degree launch azimuth, the spacecraft would be orbiting at a 104-degree inclination. Zero degrees would be due north of the launch site, and the orbital trajectory would be within 14 degrees east or west of the north-south pole meridian. At a launch azimuth of 158 degrees, the spacecraft would be orbiting at a 70 degree inclination, and the trajectory would be within 20 degrees east or west of the polar meridian. Like KSC, Vandenberg has allowable launch azimuths that do not pass over habitable areas or involve safety, abort, separation and political considerations.

@@Space-Affairs Thank you, but when you say it is 14 degrees east-west of "the north-south pole meridian, would this be magnetic or true north? By using the term meridian, I am assuming you mean true north, but you know what happens "when we assume". LOL On another topic, are the Starlink launches, from Vandenberg also "sun synchronous"? The reason I ask this is that I am able to see the Starlink launches (usually at night, so I see the engine bloom) but not the daytime launches, which are listed as Sun Synchronous (non Starlink as I haven't heard of any daylight Starlink ones). Didn't realize there was a launch this morning, or I would have looked for it.

It is SpaceX, we don't know. It is a programmed screen I guess, no human behind it.

Indeed. The Falcon 9 operations working like a swiss clock. There are people out who say, that SpaceX made rocketry boring, but each launch of a Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or the upcoming Starship is amazing from the technical perspective. We are streaming now since July 2020 and covered all of the launches since then. The statistics of SpaceX (dated on May 3rd after the last Starlink flight some hours ago): 340 total launches, 303 total landings and 274 reflights of boosters. Even the fairings are recycled since some years, there are some who flown so far 20 times or more. The only rocket in the world which have more launches is the Russian Soyuz rocket with more than 1,700 launches since its maiden flight in 1966. Falcon 9 is a workhorse, for some a "magic machine". I know a lot of aerospace engineers who said, that a reusable rocket will never work. The technology of SpaceX is the approved one from existing technology of ages. They overlooked it differently and said: There is something more to do with all of it, and so they did.

That is the short version of the MVac engine. They use this version if the stage doesn't need that high performance. They introduced this nozzle 2 years ago. It reduces weight and fuel consumption.

The windmills are kilometers far away, it looks closer to the pad and landing site as it is in reality. But, it is always a nice picture frame to see it.

a)There are two cameras mounted on the bottom of the 2nd stage, you see the different camera angles well with the engine, and also by Earth in the background. b)The "Fluttering Stuff" is protective foil which is wrapped around the engine. There are vents which are pulling out gases during the engine is under pressure and active. This "fluttering" is coming exactly from venting of gases below the foil. c) Don't know where you saw here an altitude of 515 km? Pressure at sea level is 14,70 PSI. At 20,000 meters it has dropped to 0,79 PSI. At 45,000 meters it has dropped to 0,020 PSI, above we come more and more close to a total vaccuum. Means, any pressure which will be released by the engine you can see under the protective foil gets to vibrations, even you would not see it under normal pressure conditions.

@@Space-Affairs Thank you for the reply/answers, much appreciated. So a) two cameras at bottom of second stage...ahh ok, makes sense. I didn't suspect that simply because of the perception of how much distance is b/w said camera and the engine plume. But maybe it's the nature of the lens on the camera. b) Right, foil is exactly what it looks like. I was perplexed by the fluttering action i observed b/c i knew that at such high altitudes there is virtually no atmosphere. Now i understand/know what caused the fluttering...cool, thanks. c) Maybe i read the telemetry numbers for the 2nd stage incorrectly. That's where i saw what i thought was "515 km" for it's altitude just prior to engine shut down and orbital insertion. The final numbers i saw there were ca. 27,000 km/hr and 517. I took that to mean 517 km. Perhaps it's something else? Not a big deal either way, mainly a point of curiosity. Thank you again for the answers. If you have a moment to address this my follow up reply i would greatly appreciate that too. Cheers. :-)

And why you doing that? Enlighten us.

Okay. No reason to answer. Checked it. You quoted it wrong. It has nothing to do with SpaceX, it has to to with X and Elon Musk. But that is political, and we do avoid to discuss that. Everbody on its own.

Well, some would say you are a space nerd! ;)

LOL. Did you count it? ;)

Oh wow! LOL! We always live in the future! ;) Thanks for letting us know, we will correct that!

I can make a kind like this with CGI. U wanna see ? 😂😂😂

@@portofinolabeta Enlighten us.

@@Space-Affairs Its a video since 3 years ago : ua-cam.com/video/ix3SsXG13g4/v-deo.htmlsi=tGw7KR6N2HWu1_oK