The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the SOCOM 1B mission on the 30th of August includes an onboard camera that got a full rocket takeoff and returned to the surface of our planet for all to see. If you ever want to experience what it means to land a rocket in our atmosphere, go back safely to the landing pad – now is your chance. In our lifetime it was not possible to launch and recover a rocket like this – now we have footage of the whole process on YouTube.
Included in the footage below is footage of the Falcon 9 launch of the Saocom 1B mission. The mission launched the first SpaceX into polar orbit off the east coast of the United States. Takeoff took place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station – landed at Landing Zone 1.
The mission completed the first use of the South Pole Corridor to reach orbit from Cape Canaveral in 1969. The event was captured this week and shared on the SpaceX channel on YouTube. This is significantly enhanced – the actual process only takes more than 2 minutes.
Included with this week’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, was the COOCM1B satellite CONAENE. This is the second of CONAE’s two “SAOCOM 1-Series” Earth observation satellites. The Argentine Space Agency launched these satellites to monitor the planet’s atmosphere and provide data and images to respondents before they wanted to keep our planet in working order.
The launch took place on August 30, 2020, delayed from its original launch date and location on January 2020 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Now that the satellite has been deployed, SAOCOM-1b is in sun-synchronous orbit. For more information on the shocking number of recent launches made by SpaceX, take a look at the timeline of the links below.
