# SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch

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Double the payload and a quarter the cost of Delta IV ($400M Delta IV per wiki vs$90M FH per Musk).
Cue the CEO of Orbital ATK releasing a statement about how SpaceX is still just a bit player who doesn't threaten their business.

OmCheeto
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Where is it now(ish)?

[new reference]

Q: What would it looks like to Hubble?
A: A point: 0.025 pixels
[ref: maths]

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History in the making!
Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to watch the events live when they happened, but I am catching up now ...

OmCheeto
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And the vehicle now has its own wiki page: Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

I was thumbing through Twitter this afternoon when I ran across a re-tweet by Brian Cox:

JJ Hermes‏ @jotajotahermes
Early this morning we measured the brightness changes of a car tumbling in space!
Credit to Erik Dennihy (@UNC), we can report that Tesla Roadster (Starman, 2018-017A) is rotating with a period of 4.7589 +/- 0.0060 minutes.

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Stavros Kiri and Borg
Tom.G
Video, continuous from launch thru booster recovery. About 9 minutes. Taken thru an 8 inch telescope so you can see the booster separation and the return-to-launch burns.

Stavros Kiri, Borg, mfb and 1 other person
nsaspook
Failed booster return and near miss at 1:10

Borg, DrClaude and OmCheeto
Borg