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SpaceX Falcon 9 DART mission

Launch - Vandenberg SLC4E : November 23, 2021

Falcon 9 launch sending the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on a collision course with Dimorphos.

View from an altitude of 8500'.

This was the 3rd flight of B1063, previously flown for Sentinel 6 (VAFB) and Starlink 28 (CCSFS).

Launch time approximately 06:21:02 UTC (Nov 24). Image times approximate.

06:20:24Z (L-00:38) The pad is hidden by some clouds	06:21:04Z (L+00:02) Liftoff, probably!	06:21:08Z (L+00:06)	06:21:09Z (L+00:07)
06:21:09Z (L+00:07)	06:21:10Z (L+00:08)	06:21:10Z (L+00:08)	06:21:11Z (L+00:09)
06:21:11Z (L+00:09)	06:21:12Z (L+00:10)	06:21:13Z (L+00:11)	06:21:13Z (L+00:11)
06:21:16Z (L+00:14)	06:21:18Z (L+00:16)	06:21:32Z (L+00:30)	06:21:57Z (L+00:55)
06:22:04Z (L+01:02) Passing thru MaxQ	06:22:28Z (L+01:26)	06:22:50Z (L+01:48)	06:23:10Z (L+02:08)
06:23:12Z (L+02:10)

NRC Quest arrived this morning with two fairing halves from the DART launch. A third fairing half was sitting on the dock.

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GO Quest, Of Course I Still Love You, and the tug Scorpius arriving at the Port of Long Beach this morning with B1063 from the DART launch.

pIMG_4164.JPG	Of Course I Still Love You and Booster 1063	Scorpius	pIMG_4171.JPG
pIMG_4177.JPG	pIMG_4182.JPG	Hyundai Neptune and the SpaceX fleet	pIMG_4194.JPG
The Carnival Panorama passed the convoy on the way into port	pIMG_4199.JPG	pIMG_4207.JPG	pIMG_4237.JPG
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Approaching Queens Gate	pIMG_4283.JPG	pIMG_4284.JPG	pIMG_4295.JPG
The SpaceX pier area	GO Quest	Robyn J	pIMG_4315.JPG
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