How SpaceX Recovers Falcon 9 after Drone Ship Landings - Port Canaveral Recovery Operations
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- Using footage from multiple Falcon 9 boosters, this video shows how SpaceX recovers their rockets from the deck of "Of Course I Still Love You" and "Just Read the Instructions" after a successful launch and landing.
Video from Fleetcam, a partnership with Rusty's Seafood & Oyster Bar, and Stephen Marr (@spacecoast_stve). Edited by Brady Kenniston (@TheFavoritist)
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0:00 Booster returning to port
0:47 Tugs berthing ASDS
1:08 More crew and equipment board
1:38 Closeup booster pan
2:40 Sunrise at Port
3:22 Lifting Cap attached
5:13 Leg Retraction ops begin
6:50 SpaceX Fleet Ballet
8:10 Morning prep for lift
8:53 Octograbber release and retraction
9:07 Booster lifted off ASDS
10:17 Lifting cap removed
10:49 Booster rolled on long axis
11:24 Booster rolled out of port
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Timestamps for quick reference:
0:00 Booster returning to port
0:47 Tugs berthing ASDS
1:08 More crew and equipment board
1:38 Closeup booster pan
2:40 Sunrise at Port
3:22 Lifting Cap attached
5:13 Leg Retraction ops begin
6:50 SpaceX Fleet Ballet
8:10 Morning prep for lift
8:53 Octograbber release and retraction
9:07 Booster lifted off ASDS
10:17 Lifting cap removed
10:49 Booster rolled on long axis
11:24 Booster rolled out of port
"Booster rolled on long axis out of port" :D Like a log
It look like a long process with many man hours and mechanical resources to make the recovery. Is it not cheaper to manufacture a new rocket?
@@llewellynvandermerwe2535 Nope. It is much cheaper to reuse this Rocket. A new Rocket needs much more hours of production and testing as this reusable Rocket was. Especially it is designed to be reusable.
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This is fascinating, even if you've seen many of these before. Great edit by Brady here. Happy New Year everyone!
Happy new year
@@robertvanrees Got it, thanks!
@@politonno2499 Yesterday was New Year's Eve and very poor weather. There will likely be one tonight. It's less than 12 hours into 2021 at Boca Chica :D
Will sn 9 s flight have the same amaount of camera Angeles as sn 8 or more? Btw happy new year!
@@tecktan7250 Probably the same
'You're a crane driver, your job isn't exactly rocket science."
"Funny you should say that..."
Thanks for sharing.🚀🚀🚀
"So one day i was at work and they asked me if i like rockets."
I know a guy who is a contract operator for one of those huge cranes. He makes _bank,_ and has very little education. That said it is not an easy profession to get into.
"operator"
@@tarmaque My dad was a crane operator. It might not require a lot of formal education but it's definitely a skill intensive line of work. You're also usually handling things that are worth a whole lot of money.
Hard to appreciate the size until you see people standing around it. Thanks for the video!
The content that the NSF team are producing is quite bloody brilliant. It's all played back at a good speed for covering a lot of stuff, and the ambient audio really helps to take us to these places
Its amazing watching these Falcon9's processed amongst these shipping containers etc - it feels so much like SpaceX is roaring into the future, whilst leaving the world around it behind.
First time I've ever seen this procedure. Quite fascinating. Awesome work SpaceX. Awesome footage NASA.
Not NASA but NASASpaceflight
1:24 I like how I could see a dragon craft right there.
yeah they aparrently use that one as a dummy for practicing recovery
I was about to ask why is there a dragon there
@@SeanK_emmettPlays It came there to hibernate after daenerys died.
It's amazing to think of all the logistics and engineering involved in just the recovery process alone. Thanks for the video
I can’t wait to see the massive towers and gantries they’re going to build for the whole Starship stack! It’s going to make the Falcon 9 processing look like child’s play in comparison.
I can't even imagine!
I've often wondered what that infrastructure is going to look like, because they can't lay out out horizontally. Additionally, they can't lift it by the sides - it all has to be from the bottom or the top along the vertical axis. That puts a lot of limits on how it can work.
@@warrenwattles8397 starships never go horizontal on earth, so boosters will probably also be always vertical?
The Launch Mount will have one large tower. It will be even more impressive, since Elon announced he wants SH to be caught by the tower arm as it lands and put directly on the mount, without ever touching the ground. SH won't even have landing legs.
@@hrissan Starships can handle some lateral loading, especially when it belly-flops back from space. The question here is how much. If Starship experiences an average of 1 G of acceleration during reentry, it's safe to say that it can handle sitting horizontal if in a proper cradle to distribute the force evenly. It might even handle more than 1 G. After all, a Space shuttle experiences a peak of 1.7 G during reentry and they're not decelerating as aggressively as what Starship is expected to handle.
Superheavy, on the other hand, is almost assuredly going to be handling axial loads almost exclusively.
Great view to realize once again how huge this rockets are. And it's fascinating that they have such precise landing accuracy.
Wow. Never knew they could rotate it longitudinally once it was on the carrier. Thanks NSF! And, BTW, highly recommend Rusty's. Sasha kitty is very friendly, the food is actually quite good, and the view, well . . .
Can we appreciate how maneuverable Go Searcher, Quest, and Navigator are? It's incredible!
9:07 it looks like Go Navigator, Searcher and Quest are huddling close to keep the F9 booster company, they probably just want hugs
Who doesn't love a Falcon rotisserie :) Such a well engineered turnaround. For an at sea landing, the economics are off the charts. Awesome capture NASA Spaceflight!
This was a really informative video. Not only the video itself, but the various comments were also interesting.
That's impressive! I liked seeing the ballet with the tugboats as they maneuver into position. Too cool!!
Bad enough being on a cherry picker on land, at height, never mind on a moving boat... Would love to see a full explanation of that lifting cap, seems to remotely attach itself. Then how strong the booster must be to be laid down like that without flexing itself to a big banana... Just. Wow!
I am curious how the cap attached. Is it done remotely (I'm guessing yes) or could there be people inside? But I can't see how they would get in/out.
@@Abb0nz1 Did you not watch this video?
I read in some spacex aficionados forum that the fuel tanks were pressurised to increase global rigidity... But if so, it does not clearly appear in this awesome footage. Could be one more legend...
@@skysurferuk lol, what? Yes I did. Not sure where you're going with that...
At 10:34 one can see a central "stick" protruding from the cap - that looks a lot like what we see during launches when the second stage is detaching; it's probably attaching itself to the same central point at the top of the tanks. The rest is likely support by those three points seen around the circumference of top of the booster. The alignment is probably done via cameras looking down from the rig (or possibly the exact same reactivated cameras on the booster we watch on launches). The rest is just some clever self-(or remote-)latching clamping...
What a great video! Thank you for posting this- really adds to my understanding. Awesome work!
Dear Spacex,,, Yesterday was wonderful, powerful, Exciting, and Heartwarming. Thank you for the great time..
Tomorrow fills my heart with anticipation. My soul with a new realm of "what if's" and "What may become"..
My mind fills with thoughts of what was impossible yesterday, that I saw happen today.
What "Impossible" concepts from Yesterday do I need to rethink, to make possible tomorrow.
Oh wow.
Only seeing them on video and filmed from afar, it's easy to forget how massive these boosters really are.
This video gives a much needed sense of scale by showing the workers nearby.
You get a really good sense of the scale here. Its easy to forget just how enormous these things are.
6:50 watching those ships take their positions was great actually had to watch it a few times
Now do how do They do it after landing zone landings.
Yes this will be very interesting to see
They make sure it's good, retract the legs while being held by a crane, tipped over using 2 cranes and transported back to the refurbishing facility, way simpler than this,
Unfortunately it is much harder to see the landing zone, but the process would look fairly similar.
The biggest difference is there is no octograbber. I assume they lift the booster onto a stand like they used to at the port and then fold the legs and lower it horizontal.
Some big dudes just pick it up and carry it.
They use a large explosion to knock it over, then multiple bombs to roll it into the factory, and after its arrived at its destination, they work out whats left over that they can use
Argh, I wish I still lived on Merritt Island! Great video. TY!
This was amazing footage. Really breaks it down for people! I can’t imagine how difficult trying to navigate to the hanger from port must be
Another example of how SpaceX is changing everyday and most always for the better and easier.
Great Vid team - also funny around 10:55 in the vid there's one massive rat (i think) on the top left containers (green & white) just jumping around, is that how FL grows them?
thats one huge rat- i suppose it could be some bigger mammal but the way it was acting looked like a rat- ratzilla, formerly the mascot of the NYC metro now the mascot of port Canaveral
Fun thought, but it's more likely a possum or raccoon.
Whatever it is, sharp eye, nice catch.
it might be a cat, the way it sits every once and a while.
This is top footage, and great editing. I'd seen parts of the process previously, but this explains it so well. Looking forward to all the events and NSF coverage in 2021!
Why they rolled the booster?
It's jaw dropping to see the pan over the booster and to think "That thing's gone to space, landed itself, and will go to space again"
I never knew the exact recovery procedure, really cool seeing it in such great detail
It look so amazing, how the booster makes it way over the streets in the end xD
So it looks to me like the cap is put on and released from the crane without anybody going up there? Which means it is able to attach to the booster itself (or at least via remote control) and also that the crane attachment point can release and then attach again remotely. That's pretty impressive.
I'm also impressed at the precision of the crane operator in getting the cap in place without anybody up there guiding it. I'm sure it's got some guides built in to make it slide in the last few inches exactly right but still, that's some VERY good crane operators!
I think there are sensors at the clamp that give feedback to the crane operator for proper adjustments.
Whatever it is.. The power with which it attach itself and remains there when the crane lift the booster is amazing
Hi all, hope all are good. Watching at around 1:30 I noticed a Dragon 2 in the background and was wondering, would this a be a recovery trainer of sorts for the recovery crew? Or have the managed to sparkle Endeavour back up dockside (unlikely but may as well ask). Thanks all, have a good day
Yeah, it's a training mockup the recovery crew use to practice
@@aarons1234 ah good to know, thank you
The operation is time consuming and complicated. Now I appreciate why it make sense to transition to Starship and the catch maneuver of super heavy.
Not really. A couple of cranes, a truck and a load spreader.
Elon really likes automation.
This is the opposite of automation.
Its also not that sustainable to hire this many people for every landing.
Extraordinary,I was watching the landings of the reusable boosters.few years ago.brilliant innovative minds.love it
Thank you from France ans happy New year
A mention of Octograbber prior to the start of landing leg folding operations would've been nice, "lifting rig" made me think initially that F9 would be suspended from the crane during leg-folding. Awesome video, thanks!
That booster is big! And to think its a baby compared to what is next in the SpaceX string of hits. Thank you NASA for showing this to us, the uninitiated public.
Sooo nice to see it all in one video
Thanks for showing this process. Absolutely fascinating. Seeing people working to fold the legs made me realise the scale of these boosters.
I actually work in that port. It’s always really cool seeing the falcon 9s come in
Between this facility and Boca Chica, TX, Spacex must have the highest skilled crane operators in the world!
"High" skilled 😉
Thanks NSF, definitely learn't some new stuff from this video! Now I'm going to try follow a booster though processing at port on Fleetcam!
Perfect video about this process. Thank you NSF.
I always wanted to know exactly what happens between recovery and next fly, well, 10% of that questions had been answered.
Amazing work NSF, what an amazing year you all gave us!
Wow, I always wondered that! Thanks for sharing this!
9:00 this man is hulk
Puny weight
Happy New Year NSF! Thank you for all your long hours and hard work in bringing this knowledge and enjoyment to so many of us!
Thanks for a great video showing the return procedure!
Fascinating to watch!
Thank you! I’ve wanted to see this process for some time.
The bits that impress me the most:
- The octograbber - I hadn't realised how big the robot actually is, nor that it could support the weight of the booster (I thought that it was just a 'grab and hold' thing)
- The lifting cap - cleverly designed to mate with the interstage so that nobody needs to be up that high in an EWP to attach lifting chains.
Wow that was awesome to watch thank you and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Crew
Thanks for great shots!
'partnership with Rusty's Seafood & Oyster Bar' Lol, looking at the booster while eating shrimp
I think it's genius, any NSF tank watchers who are ever down in Florida and want to spot a F9 will undoubtedly pick Rusty's first. I'm a vegetarian and even I would love to order a few drinks and check it out if I was in the area.
@@FreeRadicalX I know, right? it must be a nice place to hanging around
Yep, I will be eating there!
That rocket is bigger than i thought. A Monster!
Fascinating. Thank you and Happy New Year!
That's quite an undertaking!
thank you guys, you are awesome!
Excellent time-lapse documentary! Fleet Cam!
This is fantastic. Thank you.
So the booster reuse turnout includes the 4 days at the shipyard! Wow.
Beautiful.
This really puts the size of the booster into scale
Cool! I didn’t know that they rotated it on the truck when horizontal. The first new thing I learned this new year! Hope for many more pearls of wisdom from NSF this year!
Same here. But kind of wondering why they don't just lay it down in the right orientation. I'm guessing some sort of structural reason.
Fascinating. Very good quality editing and great shots.
Awesome video/editing. Thanks!
This is amazing!
God those boosters are huge.
Still very labor intensive. SpaceX wants to turn these around like an airliner that is making a stop at an airport. Land, head to terminal, refuel, new cargo, and take off again in 48 hours. It makes sense that now they are planning to land the superheavy booster back on the actual launch facility.
thank you FleetCam
Way more interesting than you would think !
Very cool to see , THANKS !
Really well done, interesting video. Thanks for putting in the work.
Happy New Year!
cool prospective , love all the video and live streams . you guys are doing a great job . Happy New Years!
why is it called landing if it doesn't land on land? shouldn't it be called shipp.. no wait
Mind = 🤯
Good one. :D I do wonder how naval aviators wrestled with this term when they first started landing on ships.
Ship#^@^ing
Shipanding
Landship??
That was cool, thanks for this video. I'd never seen the process before.
Thank You 🙏✌️
This was fun to watch even though I knew what happens already😂😂
10:50 "Roger roll, Atlantis"
It was really interesting! Thanks a lot!
Thank you
Thank you very much NASASpaceflight ❤❤❤
I knew they were big, but it makes that forklift look like a hotwheels toy.
Lindo trabalho de recuperação...
Awesome
great edit!
After so many launches and landings these boosters are beginning to look like the Star Wars ships. Rusty, grimey, badly repaired, still working.
Dude that's after every launch. They clean them up brand new before each launch. Paint they sell it.
Wait till the end of this year, I bet we will see boosters reaching 12+ flights.
Thanks for the video. Are there any videos or websites that walk through the refurbishing of the booster in the hanger? How long it takes etc.?
Amazing to see how much work is involved just to get the booster shipped back for refurbishing. Wonder if they have considsred simplifying and automating (if that is even possible) that process? Building cars is one thing, but rockets are just so darn big.
Great video. Any chance you can get an interview about how the heavy loads are moved and how the transporters are driven? Happy New Year guys!
That thing is huge
I just realised how badly i want to ride a spaceX to space in my lifetime - time to start saving.... i get the feeling it might be possible in our generation for civilian space travel
Crazy that crane is nearly 1 to 1 and it picks it up like a toothpick I guess those weights at the bottom of the crane are what really defines its limits.
Nice Video, thank u 📡👽❤️
When and how do they attach the two rings that hold the booster on the transporter? When the booster was lowered horizontally (9:10 - 9:19) they were not on it, but at 9:20 they were magically already there.
Nice video, good job
I didn’t realize there was so much processing that happens. Thanks for the video! I would love to see a documentary that follows a booster from drone ship to launch pad. Interviews with the crews that care for it and cool details that you wouldn’t think about. That would be cool.
I'm sure blue origin would like to see that documentary too 💡
That really would be cool, but something like that would have to come from SpaceX themselves.
Great footage. Glad to see this process. How long is it from the time the booster touches down on the drone ship until it's back at the site ready to be examined and made ready to fly again?