Falcon Heavy Launch

[Stargazer33]

This is the Space X Falcon Heavy launching with the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite as seen from Disney's EPCOT theme park. 

We were at Kennedy Space Centre four days earlier when it was originally planned to launch. This was scrubbed however due to a heavy thunderstorm and tornado warning which forced us to take shelter at Kennedy until the danger had passed.

The second attempt was scrubbed too, but in the age old tradition; third time lucky. 

[Paul M]

Nicely captured in a pristine sky!

Just a shame the boosters were on a one way ticket this time.

I never get tired of watching booster landings.

[Stargazer33]

Yes I was surprised to hear that it was a throw away rocket! Mind you, the waste that we are seeing over here is awful! The aircon running in shops and restaurants with the doors open or just massive openings at the entrances, like Rainforest Café etc is such a waste of energy.

[Paul M]

50 minutes ago, Stargazer33 said:

Yes I was surprised to hear that it was a throw away rocket!

From the limited coverage I saw, it's my understanding that there was no spare capacity in the boosters due to it being a geostationary orbit they were shooting for. It takes some fuel to just get a booster landed on one of the downrange barges, even more to return it to the launch site.

 

[Stargazer33]

Yes, that makes sense. Shame though that they couldn't recover the boosters somehow. Still, at least they're not causing even more orbital debris!