There are some very good video views of the flight in SpaceX’s own record. They are getting better at the production, including a flawless view of the landing on the barge, without telemetry dropouts. It was a completely nominal flight, and the capsule is on its way to berth with the ISS on May 6th, carrying 2483kg (5,472 pounds) of experiments, supplies, and parts for the station.
Launch happens at 15:00, landing of the first stage at 23:29 in the video:
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Good view of capsule and solar array deployment, also.
I’d never seen them deploy the solar array before–that was nifty.
I think it was the first time they used an infrared camera, too.
Yes – that was a nice effect too.
SpaceX: making rocket launches cool again. Or rather, reminding us that they always were.
Yep!