I am a 737 Captain for a legacy airline in the U.S...... recently I was flying an evening flight out of Maui to LAX. We were routed further south than normal for our arrival to LAX. At about 11pm at night and 1 hour from landing in LAX over the Pacific just southwest of the California Coastline, in the darkness, I noticed an orange glow at our 10 o'clock in the far distance.... I immediately thought "Rocket launch". We had just got in contact with Los Angeles Center and questioning pilots were asking on the frequency what the orange glow was... the controller said on the frequency SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg. My First Officer and I watched this Falcon 9 go from left to right OVER OUR HEADS with what I could only describe as "comet like qualities"...... at our 3 to 4 O'clock my FO saw the first stage light up and land on the barge in the distant darkness........it was by far the COOLEST thing I have ever seen from the cockpit in my 18 years as an airline pilot...... I just sent this video to my fellow pilot friends who i told the story to...... Now, they can see what we saw that night!!!!... absolutley amazing .....! Words can't describe how beautiful the sky was with that rocket painting a picture...... it was simply Awesome!
@@Leo-gt1bx its all controlled... many aircraft on the frequency over a large area of southern California and off the coastline.... when we are tuned to the same frequency we can all hear each other, but not necessarily see each other.....
@@Leo-gt1bx oh see what you mean now..... I did measure our distance from where we were to Vandenberg AFB where the rocket launch was..... we were approximately 200 miles south/southwest of Vandenberg over the Pacifc ocean....it was a pitch black moonless night and all we could see was the soft glow of light from the L.A. Basin ahead of us on the horizon since we were approaching the Californa coastline in the next 45 mins or so...... when the rocket started its launch we saw the orange glow on the horizon at our 10 oclock From the time it started ascending to the time it went over us and we saw the first stage land off our right wing probably 100 miles or so, it was about 10 minutes or so for the whole duration from launch to first stage landing...... that night we were routed much further south to avoid the active WARNING AREAS off the coast. Usually that means military activity of somekind to keep clear of ... im guessing that the active Warning areas were probably protecting the airspace south of Vandenberg just in case they aborted the launch over the ocean and the rocket possibly coming back down..... but by the time the rocket was over us 200 miles south of the launch location, it was clearly out of the earth's lower atmosphere making that beautiful blue comet tail...... I hope this helps.... im trying to describe it in words, but without a map it's hard to describe the locations and relative positions. We were alot farther away than im making it sound in my original post......... but you are right because there are Restricted Areas that were active around Vandenburg AFB during the launch to keep aircraft clear of the actual launch location as well as the Warning Areas off the coast over the ocean south of the launch...... like I said, a map would be so helpful in my explanation.... 😀
Have you seen the video from the international space station of a soyuz launch from their perspective all the way until it reaches space and starts traveling behind them? ruclips.net/video/B1R3dTdcpSU/видео.html
Agreed. I also really enjoy watching NASA's old videos of the launch, separation, and splashdown form the POV of the Solid Rocket Boosters. They had one with sound that's really amazing.
Keep dreaming, this so fake. 🤣👏. Honestly, to fly in space, no craft needed....just find a way out. 🤔. Meatsuit doesnt go with ur tetrahedron, by the way
Spectacular! I'm on the Gulf side and saw the SpaceX Dragon launch at night and was astounded. I didn't expect to see it. Was pleasantly surprised. Will NEVER forget it! 🚀
But wait, the flat earthers say it's all CGI. You must be a CIA plant.... ...Yes, that is sarcasm😀 That must have been an incredible sight, I'm more than a little jealous.
If anyone questions SpaceX's ability to be a major player in returning to the moon, show them this video and then ask 'who else is able to do this?' Madness.
Guys that is a boat. floating on the water. That is also a rocket that went supersonic, Obtained max dynamic pressure. Breached atmosphere twice then landed on said boat.
@John Coinyer having in count spacex makes profit and uses its own money, i don't understand what musk being a billionaire is even necessary for this topic. you reallly need to grow up. you do know he is a billionaire because of the companies he builts and works, right? being hateful because of someone having money is very weak...plus did you ever heard of tesla? elon, either you admit or not, has help the world transition for renewable energy sonner for atn leats 20 years. until he started it, no one was doing it...some companies started and then stoped because "it wasn't fun"! he didn't, even tho it could have made him broke...remember tesla and spacex, are 2 of the biggest companies today, in 2 industries that people said both companies would die!
@John Coinyer Far better than what the govts are doing with such money, wasting $ trillions on some useless wars. Rather than wasting a $ trillion on invading Afghanistan, the US govt should've given that money to space x and NASA to set up mines on the moon to extract rare materials that can be used for medicine and clean fuels.
I took my dad to see a shuttle launch 17 years ago. We were all in place and then they scrubbed with -2h on the clock. It was two weeks before it went off, by which time we were back in the UK. We went all that way to see nothing. So to all the people who write to say 'We just happened to be in Florida when...' or 'I was just flying a plane over Florida when...'... Aaaarrrgghh!. *Sigh*. My dad's too unwell to travel now; I was still hopeful of seeing an Artemis launch but they seem to have scrubbed that permanently. I should get back there for some sort of launch though. Great vid, to see the entire show unfold from launch to separation to entry burn to landing burn. Nice job.
Really nice video, the speed up let's you see how the drone ship bobs in the water and I never get tired of the jelly fish thing when it's dark but the vapor trail is illuminated. Be thanks to SpaceX for pre-visualizing the launch and setting the camera up to see all but the first 60 seconds or so of the launch.
Total time of this video was about 8.5 minutes, you see the launch, MECO, entry burn of first stage about 100 miles away, and finally landing burn and landing. Incredible!
Very cool. I saw a launch just like this from the side just before Christmas 2018. I was about 10 miles out of Pahrump, NV not long after dark and pulled over when I saw the launch. When I got into Pahrump, I encountered multiple car accidents on the way to the hotel. All of California was freaking out. They get launches like this all the time out of Vandenburg but they somehow forgot what the one last month looked like and were screaming about UFOs, too funny.
Great video! Dusk launches are amazing and I was lucky enough to be on the beach at Cape Canaveral (just to the left in this video) for this launch. Thanks for sharing!
This is kind of like what happened in Star Trek, when the tribe saw the Enterprise and started to worship it. I have seen almost every SpaceX launch and this was the most amazing view I’ve ever witnessed. Edit: eat your heart out Tom Brady. That was the most accurate touchdown in the history of football.
Next step up is with a telescopic lens following the first stage from first sighting at launch to landing.…hopeful not obscured by clouds. Be cool to see separation, entry burn and the final moments before touchdown in real time.
I’m so glad they finally fixed the camera going out issue just as it’s landing on the drone ship. How far is the drone ship sitting off the coast anyway? I always thought it was much further out than it looks in this video.
The problem was sending the footage, it was always recorded ok. Just the movement would throw the starlink aerial out of alignment. Still incredible. Just need to get the camera on a gimbal now to track the Falcon’s path. Plus, of course, we need scoring rings on the pad so they can get points for accuracy!
Just curious. What is that secondary flash within the launch path above the pad? It’s not the rocket since it is now overhead and out of the field of view of this camera?.
Love this… what is that ball of fire looking thing at 0:15? There was also another white flash just before that after Falcon 9 was was above the lens view.
The engines of the first stage, they lit before reentering the atmosphere so the vehicle slows down. The white trail is the second stage going into orbit.
That wuz straight up awesome.... NASA would've got a lot more funding back in the day if they inspired people with little video hooks like SpaceX is doing with this ☑️
The problem is a lot of the video technology SpaceX used was not available back in the day. Having said that there are some truly spectacular films of Saturn 5 rockets lifting off
😮 The drone-ship seems to be moving toward the landing point. I always assumed it is stationary waiting for the rocket to reach it at the landing point. Which one is it? Is the movement an illusion due to the fast forward and some water current?
I just realized that space is closer than I thought. I didn't know that rockets do not fly straight. But if you are looking at where the rocket launched or the rocket cam, it looks like it is flying straight.
They fly straight only for a bit until they are out of the thickest part of the atmosphere, after that they start tilting sideways as shown in the video.. it saves fuel and is the most efficient path. Inefficient Path : go up, then go right Efficient path: go up, and when theres okayish resistance start turning already.
@@Penfold101 if only cars went up instead of forward, and the wind didnt get crazy at those heights...also all air breathing engines die round about when theres not enough air to feed the engine hehe....
@@Penfold101 yer gonna need a rocket with liquid oxygen on board like SpaceEx. Or use solid fuel boosters, uncontrollable as they are from their liquid counterparts
![Evolution of SpaceX Rockets (NEW) [2002-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_L5dXIFKWqM/mqdefault.jpg)
I am a 737 Captain for a legacy airline in the U.S...... recently I was flying an evening flight out of Maui to LAX. We were routed further south than normal for our arrival to LAX. At about 11pm at night and 1 hour from landing in LAX over the Pacific just southwest of the California Coastline, in the darkness, I noticed an orange glow at our 10 o'clock in the far distance.... I immediately thought "Rocket launch". We had just got in contact with Los Angeles Center and questioning pilots were asking on the frequency what the orange glow was... the controller said on the frequency SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg. My First Officer and I watched this Falcon 9 go from left to right OVER OUR HEADS with what I could only describe as "comet like qualities"...... at our 3 to 4 O'clock my FO saw the first stage light up and land on the barge in the distant darkness........it was by far the COOLEST thing I have ever seen from the cockpit in my 18 years as an airline pilot...... I just sent this video to my fellow pilot friends who i told the story to...... Now, they can see what we saw that night!!!!... absolutley amazing .....! Words can't describe how beautiful the sky was with that rocket painting a picture...... it was simply Awesome!
Awesome!
So you had no idea of a another aircraft in your vicinity?
Sounds like poor airspace control.
@@Leo-gt1bx its all controlled... many aircraft on the frequency over a large area of southern California and off the coastline.... when we are tuned to the same frequency we can all hear each other, but not necessarily see each other.....
@@DadsTimeOutdoors I find it odd that you were not notified of a rocket launch in your vicinity.
@@Leo-gt1bx oh see what you mean now..... I did measure our distance from where we were to Vandenberg AFB where the rocket launch was..... we were approximately 200 miles south/southwest of Vandenberg over the Pacifc ocean....it was a pitch black moonless night and all we could see was the soft glow of light from the L.A. Basin ahead of us on the horizon since we were approaching the Californa coastline in the next 45 mins or so...... when the rocket started its launch we saw the orange glow on the horizon at our 10 oclock From the time it started ascending to the time it went over us and we saw the first stage land off our right wing probably 100 miles or so, it was about 10 minutes or so for the whole duration from launch to first stage landing...... that night we were routed much further south to avoid the active WARNING AREAS off the coast. Usually that means military activity of somekind to keep clear of ... im guessing that the active Warning areas were probably protecting the airspace south of Vandenberg just in case they aborted the launch over the ocean and the rocket possibly coming back down..... but by the time the rocket was over us 200 miles south of the launch location, it was clearly out of the earth's lower atmosphere making that beautiful blue comet tail......
I hope this helps.... im trying to describe it in words, but without a map it's hard to describe the locations and relative positions. We were alot farther away than im making it sound in my original post......... but you are right because there are Restricted Areas that were active around Vandenburg AFB during the launch to keep aircraft clear of the actual launch location as well as the Warning Areas off the coast over the ocean south of the launch...... like I said, a map would be so helpful in my explanation.... 😀
This has to be one of the coolest videos I have seen. Great job!
Have you seen the video from the international space station of a soyuz launch from their perspective all the way until it reaches space and starts traveling behind them?
ruclips.net/video/B1R3dTdcpSU/видео.html
100 percent agree! Just awesome…
Agreed. I also really enjoy watching NASA's old videos of the launch, separation, and splashdown form the POV of the Solid Rocket Boosters. They had one with sound that's really amazing.
Agreed
The exact words I was thinking. 😊
It's always inspiring to watch videos like this while laying in bed at late night and makes you dream of travelling in space one day.
Nerd
@@danielarcher5038 Bru how
Keep dreaming, this so fake. 🤣👏. Honestly, to fly in space, no craft needed....just find a way out. 🤔. Meatsuit doesnt go with ur tetrahedron, by the way
@@bakedbeans3181 omg flat earthers are so annoying. Why not just post on conspiracy videos and stop trolling people talking about rockets
@@ANTIStraussian ur idiots man brainwashed dumbfks, never said flat earth, any thing of sort, soyboy
The most beautiful Rocket Launch I have ever seen.
Just watched it thrice! Launch, re-entry burn snd landing!
Absolutely stunning!
There’s no boostback burn in drone ship landing
@@joyjoyexia161 corrected
Spectacular! I'm on the Gulf side and saw the SpaceX Dragon launch at night and was astounded. I didn't expect to see it. Was pleasantly surprised. Will NEVER forget it! 🚀
But wait, the flat earthers say it's all CGI. You must be a CIA plant....
...Yes, that is sarcasm😀 That must have been an incredible sight, I'm more than a little jealous.
America’s broomsticks are still setting records, and impressing the world. Great job Space X team and Elon!
Absolutely mind-bending to think about the technology behind this video!
If anyone questions SpaceX's ability to be a major player in returning to the moon, show them this video and then ask 'who else is able to do this?' Madness.
NO-ONE
CANT SAY ITS FAKE ANYWAY
Highly suspect shenanigans.
No one. And they are doing it a cadence that was unthinkable to the incumbents.
So you wanna bet that some empty headed moron won’t find a way to say it’s fake?
I will never tire of seeing the boosters re-enter and land, it is such a great accomplishment. Kudos, SpaceX.
Pretty cool to see the booster rocket in the reflection of the water on the landing deck.
Guys that is a boat. floating on the water. That is also a rocket that went supersonic, Obtained max dynamic pressure. Breached atmosphere twice then landed on said boat.
Much respect SpaceX
@John Coinyer his money
@John Coinyer having in count spacex makes profit and uses its own money, i don't understand what musk being a billionaire is even necessary for this topic.
you reallly need to grow up. you do know he is a billionaire because of the companies he builts and works, right?
being hateful because of someone having money is very weak...plus did you ever heard of tesla? elon, either you admit or not, has help the world transition for renewable energy sonner for atn leats 20 years. until he started it, no one was doing it...some companies started and then stoped because "it wasn't fun"! he didn't, even tho it could have made him broke...remember tesla and spacex, are 2 of the biggest companies today, in 2 industries that people said both companies would die!
@John Coinyer Far better than what the govts are doing with such money, wasting $ trillions on some useless wars. Rather than wasting a $ trillion on invading Afghanistan, the US govt should've given that money to space x and NASA to set up mines on the moon to extract rare materials that can be used for medicine and clean fuels.
@John Coinyer shut up loser
@John Coinyer Welcome to the clown show.
Absolutely gorgeous!
Simply amazing.....Falcon 9 has filled the void since the Shuttle has been gon...
I took my dad to see a shuttle launch 17 years ago. We were all in place and then they scrubbed with -2h on the clock. It was two weeks before it went off, by which time we were back in the UK. We went all that way to see nothing. So to all the people who write to say 'We just happened to be in Florida when...' or 'I was just flying a plane over Florida when...'... Aaaarrrgghh!. *Sigh*. My dad's too unwell to travel now; I was still hopeful of seeing an Artemis launch but they seem to have scrubbed that permanently. I should get back there for some sort of launch though. Great vid, to see the entire show unfold from launch to separation to entry burn to landing burn. Nice job.
I love it when a plan comes together!
I love watching the falcon 9 launches but that footage is brilliant
That is a profound video.
This video summarizes the leaps in technology of modern space programs.
Really nice video, the speed up let's you see how the drone ship bobs in the water and I never get tired of the jelly fish thing when it's dark but the vapor trail is illuminated. Be thanks to SpaceX for pre-visualizing the launch and setting the camera up to see all but the first 60 seconds or so of the launch.
Total time of this video was about 8.5 minutes, you see the launch, MECO, entry burn of first stage about 100 miles away, and finally landing burn and landing. Incredible!
Most impressive Space video I’ve seen in years - that was awesome
This team is changing the course of future written history 💪🏻
This is possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Less than 10 minutes is what it takes for this to happen in real time, incredible
Saw this on a plane traveling back to the states from Aruba.
Absolutely stunning
Very cool. I saw a launch just like this from the side just before Christmas 2018. I was about 10 miles out of Pahrump, NV not long after dark and pulled over when I saw the launch. When I got into Pahrump, I encountered multiple car accidents on the way to the hotel. All of California was freaking out. They get launches like this all the time out of Vandenburg but they somehow forgot what the one last month looked like and were screaming about UFOs, too funny.
Absolutely Spectacular!
That's just awesome!!
That was AWESOME. Good find video from space.
WOW!! That is so amazing!!
One of the most expensive videos to make. Beautiful.
What a HORIZON!!
Respect 🫡 SpaceX ❣️
Absolutely amazing😮!
Awsome. Great work you guys 👍🏼👌🏻💪💪
I've seen this view before. Just makes the whole operation look even more incredible.
Incredible View!
totally amazing!!!
amazing and beautiful
The previous rocket had a 'rapid disassembly' feature which they probably disabled for this version...
Most epic thing yet.
Truly inspiring
Great video! Dusk launches are amazing and I was lucky enough to be on the beach at Cape Canaveral (just to the left in this video) for this launch. Thanks for sharing!
Spectacular! 👏👏
Twilight & early morning launches are the best!!! 🚀
It still boggles my brain to think of the engineering to acomplish this like it is no big deal
obviously it is , otherwise nasa would have been doing this themselves, their sls isn't even able to lift off
Super rare and satisfying video!..
That is a great clip.
This is nicely Pre Calculated
That is so cool dude!!
Great Job Space X Team...
Amazing! And spectacular! 👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Bonjour de Russie. Merci beaucoup piur cette vidéo, et merci tout le monde. Bon courage
Pas la guerre...
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
It’s like a magic trick
I love that Broomstick. Well done Elon. Dean 🇬🇧
Works great as long as you don't have any wind. How many times have you seen flat-glass ocean conditions?
Space is imaginable
Amazingly Beautiful
This is kind of like what happened in Star Trek, when the tribe saw the Enterprise and started to worship it.
I have seen almost every SpaceX launch and this was the most amazing view I’ve ever witnessed.
Edit: eat your heart out Tom Brady. That was the most accurate touchdown in the history of football.
To all who think the earth is flat. This might be your Video to prove everyone wrong 😂
Super cool perspective!
Next step up is with a telescopic lens following the first stage from first sighting at launch to landing.…hopeful not obscured by clouds. Be cool to see separation, entry burn and the final moments before touchdown in real time.
This is so cool!
Nice…thank you!
WOW 🤯 that's truly amazing 💯💖👏🤝 respect this technology is so awesome 😎
Truely amazing
Thanks. That was great!
That was badass!
Unreal!
Amazing!
Rare cases where a vertical video would have been better
Very awesome video.
This video will silence 😶 the flatheads, flat Earthers❣️
-Nuff said 🫡.
It won't though. They'll just say "fake cgi" and run away.
@@HoudiniGTP
Yeahssss.
Superb!
It would have been _really_ impressive if they could've done that with the Saturn V's first stage.
I’m so glad they finally fixed the camera going out issue just as it’s landing on the drone ship. How far is the drone ship sitting off the coast anyway? I always thought it was much further out than it looks in this video.
The drone ship is about 300km away from the coast, depending on the launch. Sometimes not as far
The problem was sending the footage, it was always recorded ok. Just the movement would throw the starlink aerial out of alignment. Still incredible. Just need to get the camera on a gimbal now to track the Falcon’s path. Plus, of course, we need scoring rings on the pad so they can get points for accuracy!
Just curious. What is that secondary flash within the launch path above the pad? It’s not the rocket since it is now overhead and out of the field of view of this camera?.
If you mean the flash at about 0:17, that's the re-entry burn of the first stage. If you mean something else, can you provide a time stamp?
Droneship need a camera facing up
Search RUclips for video title: "360 View First Stage Landing on Droneship".
Saw this in 2017 and thought it was an asteroid. All of San Diego exploded in fear and panic.
Wish I could see what the future is beholding I'm 72 seen just a taste, envy my grandchildren, I believe WE will be something like star trek
AMAZING!!!!!
Totally cool
Love this… what is that ball of fire looking thing at 0:15? There was also another white flash just before that after Falcon 9 was was above the lens view.
The engines of the first stage, they lit before reentering the atmosphere so the vehicle slows down. The white trail is the second stage going into orbit.
Bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !....
Elon, you're the best !....
🙂
From Brussels, with Love...
Just sick.
The quickest way of drying off a damp deck.
This is amazing, congrats to Elon and the SpaceX team for making what we as humans thought impossible actually possible!
Amazing....beautiful to see !!!!
Great ! U known what. Some UFO vidéos show this. We known now what it is. Kiss from 🇫🇷
That wuz straight up awesome.... NASA would've got a lot more funding back in the day if they inspired people with little video hooks like SpaceX is doing with this ☑️
The problem is a lot of the video technology SpaceX used was not available back in the day. Having said that there are some truly spectacular films of Saturn 5 rockets lifting off
😮 The drone-ship seems to be moving toward the landing point.
I always assumed it is stationary waiting for the rocket to reach it at the landing point.
Which one is it? Is the movement an illusion due to the fast forward and some water current?
Definitely stationary.
I just realized that space is closer than I thought. I didn't know that rockets do not fly straight. But if you are looking at where the rocket launched or the rocket cam, it looks like it is flying straight.
They fly straight only for a bit until they are out of the thickest part of the atmosphere, after that they start tilting sideways as shown in the video.. it saves fuel and is the most efficient path.
Inefficient Path : go up, then go right
Efficient path: go up, and when theres okayish resistance start turning already.
Takes about 8 minutes to get to orbit. You could drive there in about an hour.
@@Penfold101 if only cars went up instead of forward, and the wind didnt get crazy at those heights...also all air breathing engines die round about when theres not enough air to feed the engine hehe....
@@Penfold101 yer gonna need a rocket with liquid oxygen on board like SpaceEx. Or use solid fuel boosters, uncontrollable as they are from their liquid counterparts
@@kanavkohli794 I think you’re taking my comment a bit too literally…
All rocket launches should be at sunset
Welcome home little buddy.
Skynet is here
Cool video, shame it was took on a 10 year phone. Surely someone could have loaned SpaceX a 4k camera.
Awesome
What makes the trails glow for so long?
Not sure, but I think it's because the rocket is high enough that it's in sunlight. Happy to be corrected.
@@maxfan1591 Thats what I was thinking too.