That’s just an illusion! It’s extremely far away. The launch site is a few km from the nearest public road, and about 10km from the closest town, and I’m viewing it from a few hundred km!

I bet the editor just felt it was better to cut around for the sizzle reel. For the tip-over, I wonder if the booster went kaboom when it hit the water and they want to emphasize the success rather than what could be perceived as a failure. So you’re right, maybe brand image. Maybe one day they’ll finally release the footage!

I think they were more open when they were developing Falcon 9. Based on all these amazing test flights, the engineers still have that magic SpaceX culture, but perhaps the media department has become more corporate.

Thanks!! Yep, lots of planes flying around, going to San Francisco and San Jose!

I love that they showed more of the booster landing footage, but I still wish we could see it hit the water and tip over!

Pretty sad that the coolest part of the whole video is what user effi on the NSF forum spotted:

Even in the Raptor room behind the Mega bay they watch NSF :D .A Screenshot from 46:14:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=60962.0;attach=2294746;image

https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1804542638034661522

I would also like to see more collaboration, and there are many nuanced reasons why the US would rather not. Just one of them is that this launch resulted in this:

https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1804542638034661522

I can’t imagine being one of the scientists designing and cheering on this mission and then realizing my country’s funds caused that scene. Thank goodness the US doesn’t drop empty stages (containing extremely dangerous chemicals in this case) on populated areas, this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated.

It’s that simple!