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  • 2 months ago
European asteroid mission Hera launches despite poor weather

A European mission to investigate a distant asteroid hit by the first test of Earth's planetary defenses blasts off, despite gloomy weather linked to a hurricane bearing down on Florida. A broadcast by SpaceX shows the Falcon 9 rocket launching into cloudy skies from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida, where Hurricane Milton has forced evacuations ahead of expected landfall on Wednesday.

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00:004, 3, 2, 1, ignition, engines full power, and liftoff. Go Hera, go Falcon, go SpaceX.
00:15Vehicle is pitching downrange.
00:18Stage 1 propulsion is nominal.
00:30A T-plus 30 seconds and counting, Falcon 9 has successfully lifted off from Slick 40.
00:40After clearing the tire, we begin to tilt or gimbal the engines.
00:44That initiates a roll maneuver you might see on the Stage 1 camera view, although it's kind of cloudy.
00:49But this enables the vehicle's antennas to stay in the best position for communicating with the ground.
00:54We are into max dynamic aero-
00:57Falcon is supersonic.
00:58After in a speeding bullet.

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