🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 - Thuraya 4-NGS Launch Live From Daytona Beach FL - January 03, 2025 🚀

0:00 … Opening…
2:22 … Flacon 9 above the rooftop…
3:40 … Main engine cutoff…
3:47 … Second stage ignition.
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Mission:
Type: Communications
Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Launch Cost: $52,000,000

Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.
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Location:
Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 40 has witnessed the launch of 280 rockets, including 280 orbital launch attempts, while Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA, has been the site for 994rocket launches.
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Landing:
Core B1073
Booster B1073 last launched 11/18/2024 and has seen 19successful launches and landings. Notable missions include SES-22, Hakuto-R and CRS-27.

A Shortfall of Gravitas – ASOG

The fourth ASDS barge, A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Altantic Ocean.

Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship – ASDS
An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory.
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Agency:
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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Live Stream Equipment and Software:
Camera: Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max
Gimbal: DJI Osmo 6
Streaming Software: Streamlabs