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Old December 8th 10, 06:05 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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Default Dragon Is In Orbit!

On Dec 8, 11:06*am, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article
tatelephone,
says...



Whole ascent went just great, and they got some really good video of the
stage burns and Dragon separation.


I watched the video live and was amazed at how stable Falcon 9 was
during the 1st and 2nd stage burns. *The earth (in the camera
background) was rock solid, which shows that the attitude and roll of
Falcon 9 was rock solid. *Nicely done!

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Jeff
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Liquid fueled rockets are very smooth compared to solids. Vibration
resistant gyroscopicaly stabilized cameras were first developed by the
movie industry for use on helicopters. If you look at the rocket body
as well as the Earth I think some of the solidity had to do with the
excellent engineering that went into the camera as well as the rocket
itself.