SpaceX launches Intelsat 40e satellite with NASA TEMPO instrument, nails landing

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:30 a.m. EDT (0430 GMT) and the first stage landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument (TEMPO) "will measure pollution of North America, from Mexico City to the Canadian oil sands, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific hourly and at high spatial resolution," according to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA.

Credit: SpaceX

[RonRay]

After the 4 minute time, the voice of the narrator belongs to Kate Tice. One of the greatest voices in media. ❤ 👍

[gnofleasfoamfollower]

Do you ever show the escalation of g forces on 'pilot, et al.?'

[normal_media]

whoa wait. It goes up? and thats called ascent? See. Learn something new everyday. Thank goodness she told us.

[KingLordLele]

8:38 how did it go from 24km to 2km so quickly? Were the numbers off?

[Danielx]

Didn't nail the landing, didn't land inside the circle 😂

[leismichael]

it is so cool to see it land on the pad

[techwizard]

can someone tell what exactly does super heavy booster does in starship as i saw some other videos where starship flies without the superheavy booster. Is it meant to put the upper stage in the orbit? If yes, why haven't they tested the launch of starship with the booster yet. Also what is that thing called starhopper?
Might come accross as dumb but these are my genuine questions

[natasciananni]

È sempre emozionante vedere tornare il Falcon🎉❤🇮🇹👋✨🌷

[cfm]

This would be so much better without the woman "mansplaining" it to us like were stupid.

[maxhardover]

HEY! MUSK!! Got a second from your Twitter account wacking?

Could we please dispense with the mindless chatter from these commentators? Or how about another channel that has nothing but the Mission engineers' loop comms? PLEASE?? I can't take the mindless Baca baca baca baca Baca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca MaxQ! Baca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca GO!! Baca baca baca baca we're now appraoching the second Baca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca now we Baca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca b Baca baca baca baca bBaca baca baca baca
I'd really just like to hear that Falcon booster with nine engines roaring and crackling as it launches and picks up speed and hits the staging targets. That'd be really cool...