Comments on: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches the Space Force’s X-37B https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438639 Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:24:52 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438639 I hated that movie.

My first guess was that FH was empty and X-37 on the second Falcon—the FH a distraction to get China’s eyes looking in the wrong ground track.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438470 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:33:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438470 Ray Van Dune-
now that you mention it, yeah appears to accelerate more than the Falcon 9. (just comparing the two clips I’ve watched)
Logically, it should, right?
Night launches are always visually exciting. The downside is, difficult to get a good perspective sometimes, of what is actually going on. (a 1st world problem…)

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Jeff:
do we every really know, exactly what is going on?

Capricorn One (1978)
Mars Landing Scene
https://youtu.be/2LhsuPLvtFk
3:26

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438466 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:01:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438466 Do we know what was really inside that fairing?
:)

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438465 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:50:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438465 In reply to Dick Eagleson.

Dick Eagleson: You are right. I forgot to add tonight’s launch into the total. Now fixed.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438464 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:20:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438464 This is the seventh X-37B flight.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-the-space-forces-x-37b/#comment-1438458 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:07:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101532#comment-1438458 Is it my imagination, or did that Falcon Heavy accelerate upwards off the pad at a very high rate?! High thrust / weight ratio for the win!

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