This is the live launch webcast of the AsiaSat 8 mission which lifted off Tuesday, August 5th at
08:00 UTC.
The AsiaSat 8 satellite flew to its intended orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral.
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- Dainty Canadian: Congrats onnyet another succesful launch!
- Patchuchan: +Randy King
That or use a cheap third stage which should increase the payload mass fraction for GTO missions and keep the second stage out of a high energy orbit.
On the Delta II which lacked a high energy upper stage like Falcon 9 this was the Star-48.
Spacex would probably do something in house using the Kestrel or Superdraco engine if they choose to go this route.
Another option would be to use Falcon Heavy and keep enough propellant reserves for recovery.
- dkr000theOne: American innovation at its finest.
- Zypofaeser: It wouldnt take that much. Af few houndreds m/s delta-v could probably do the deorbit. And they want to land the Dragon propulsively so why couldnt they land the second stage propulsively?
- Gokhan Polat: +Zypofaeser I think they are using the 9 Merlin engines, controlling them individually to control trajectory of the rocket reentering the atmosphere. This would not be possible with single engine second stage. #guessing
- Zach Lewis: No, this satellite was too heavy to attempt a soft landing.
- EtherasFox: This one *was* GTO (geostationary transfer orbit). SpaceX posted about 1 week ago the video of the first stage landing in the ocean. So... the answer is: they're already doing it!
Upper stage will be more of a problem. It has much more distance to travel to come back to Earth (meaning it will need more fuel), but its also going much faster (so will need more shielding, which increases weight). It might be doable, but we should focus on the easier job first and learn from it, and then apply that knowledge to see if we can get that upper stage back.
- Ole Martin Gjersvik: +Randy King Space X has said that the will continue to sell one shot rockets as long as customers are wiling to pay for them. And that reusable has 30% less capacity. But when reusable rockets comes to the market my guess is that this type payload will go on a reusable Falcon Heavy when the price for that is less than a Falcon 9 one shot. If everything else is the same.
- op4000exe: Awesome video :D Thanks for the great video x)
- Cameron Burgess: Every successful launch is a step towards the future! #TeamSpaceX
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