Welcome to James’s Newsletter by me, James. Work at BNSF Railway. Following SpaceX and hope to see a return to the moon in my lifetime.
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SpaceX is an Elon Musk enterprise in which, after years of development, has successfully launched many missions for satellite deployments, International Space Station resupply and delivering astronauts on Crew Dragon to the ISS.
There are many interesting facts that are encountered with each mission, the 1st stage of each rocket is recovered for reuse via autonomous landing software and autonomous drone ships (Of Course I Still Love You and Just Read The Instructions) that cruise the Atlantic Ocean specifically built for this recovery.
At each segment of the launch a new sequence of events occurs, MaxQ, forces are greatest and throttling back is required, 1st stage separation and reentry burn, second stage encounters MECO, main engine cutoff, then the payload capsule is placed into it's predetermined orbit.
The payload is then released from the capsule in the correct orbit around the earth.
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